![]() In three sections, which are enclosed by an orientation and a prospectus, Heisig portrays the philosophies of Nishida, Tanabe, and Nishitani, focusing on their conceptual achievements, the ventures into political thought all three thinkers engaged during the militarism of Shouwa Japan, and the religious dimension central to these philosophies. In this book, Heisig presents a clear, insightful, and accessible exposition of the philosophy advanced by the three arguably most important thinkers of the so-called Kyoto-school-Kitarou Nishida, Hajime Tanabe, and Keiji Nishitani-that was sorely lacking in the English and German speaking world as well as, I assume, in most languages other than Japanese. ![]() ![]() James Heisig's Philosophers of Nothingness, the English version of his Filosofos de la nada, appeared in 2001 and has ever since provoked a series of superlative reviews, published in the common venues dealing with Japanese thought and comparative philosophy, praising it, for the most part, as a brilliant milestone in the scholarship on the Kyoto school. Reviewed by Gereon Kopf (Luther College, Department of Religion and Philosophy) Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School. ![]()
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