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...Whalen Lai The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji . Edited by Taitetsu Unno . Berkeley : Asian Humanities Press , 1989 . xiv, 350 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism . By Nishitani Keiji . Translated by Graham Parkes with Setsuko Aihara...

...Bernard Faure Religion and Nothingness . By Keiji Nishitani . Translated by Jan Van Bragt . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . xlix, 318 pp. Notes, Glossary, Index. $28.50 (cloth); $8.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 402...

... ideas but also personality, this book is a diamond in the rough. The translation shines. Hashimoto and Heisig are able to capture the intricacy of Nishida's thought and, even more so, the tea-flavored reminiscence of Nishitani. With a simplicity and lucidity that come only from independent thought...

... the importance of the publication of this book, Ueda Shizuteru, the widely known “third-generation” Kyoto School thinker (the “first generation” being Nishida Kitarō and Tanabe Hajime, the “second generation” being Nishitani Keiji, Hisamatsu Shin'ichi, et al .), penned the original essay specifically...

... as forthrightly as I shall. The selection of authors and the allocation of space to each seems reasonable on the whole: Nishida (97 pages), Tanabe (94 pages), Kuki (30 pages), Watsuji (68 pages), Miki (32), Tosaka (52 pages), Nishitani (30 pages). Nishitani seems underrepresented by more than half, but this may...

... four posthumously translated essays by Suzuki, three each by Nishitani Keiji and Abe Masao, one each from five other contemporary Buddhist scholars and one essay of selected poetry, "Ikkyu's Skeletons," by the fifteenth-century Zen monk. The essays are usefully grouped under three topics: "Essays...

... (32), Tosaka (52 pages), Nishitani (30 pages). Nishitani seems underrepresented by more than half, but this may be due in part to the fact that recent translations of his work are available in some abundance. The selection of texts is another matter. The guiding principles are not indicated...

... (cloth); $15 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 404 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES difficulty with the frequent allusions to Zen aphorisms. Notwithstanding Nishitani's claims that "no firm stand is taken on any particular religious or philosophical view," and that his...

... G. EGLER Western Illinois University The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji. Edited by TAITETSU U N N O . Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1989. xiv, 350 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism. By N I S H I T A N I K E I J I . Translated by G R A H A M PARKES...

... is encyclopedic and (perhaps' for that reason) dry. Rubin's is far from encyclopedic and (perhaps for that reason) full of sparks. RICHARD .H. MINEAR University of Massachusetts, Amherst Religion and Nothingness. By KEIJI NISHITANI. Translated by JAN VAN BRAGT. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. xlix...

... disturbing here is the aspiration to "overcome" what is perceived as a "nihilism." Not only is the entirely uncritical beatification (if not deification) of the late Nishitani Keiji as the avatar of a philosophical "new world order" extremely problematic in view of the continuity between Nishitani's wartime...

... to hensen”). The event put noted Kyoto School intellectuals who had earlier conceptualized Japan's unique mission within world history during the war years—including Kōsaka Masaaki, Suzuki Shigetaka, and Nishitani Keiji—into dialogue with postwar thinkers who advocated for freedom of thought in opposition...

... is the entirely uncritical beatification (if not deification) of the late Nishitani Keiji as the avatar of a philosophical "new world order" extremely problematic in view of the continuity between Nishitani's wartime writings and his postwar exercises in an apolitical and thereby "innocent" philosophy of religion...

... . Additional research shows that the father set his daughter on a Confucian inspired path, but Shizu ultimately “carved out her own literary space” (p. 134). Yabuta Yutaka discusses a collection of family documents, including diaries and letters, related to the life of commoner Nishitani Saku (1842–62...

... expose the foolishness of intellectuals through laughter, thereby avoiding pretentiousness. The discussion culminates in an explication of “Head-Flying Savage.” Yabuta Yutaka discusses a collection of family documents, including diaries and letters, related to the life of commoner Nishitani Saku...

.... Korea, Government General. 1920 . Koseki chōsa hōkoku [Report of survey of antiquities]. Seoul. Korea, National Museum. 1979 . Sŏnggungni. 2 vols. Seoul. Tadashi Nishitani . 1969 . “ Chōsen Hantō ni okeru shoki inasaku ” [Early rice cultivation in the Korean peninsula]. Kōkogaku kenkyū...

... purpose), we could wish for more biographic information on Suzuki, Nishitani, Abe, and the other contributors and at least a bibliography of the Western-language writings of the contributors to this fine anthology. ROBERT LEE Southwestern University Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan. By THOMAS R. H...

... of Tanabe Hajime, most particularly his Philosophy as Metanoetics. Most of these papers were first presented at an international symposium on metanoetics held at Smith College in 1989- Tanabe, as a leading figure of the Kyoto School of philosophy, along with Nishida Kitaro and Nishitani Keiji, struggled...

..., Nishitani Keiji, by one of the author's associates, Fr. Jan Van Bragt. One of the most attractive features of Japanese Religiosity resides, not so much in the material handled, as in the way it is investigated. The entire enterprise breathes a spirit of optimism about the Japanese character which is able...

... on the thought of the modern Buddhist philosopher, Nishitani Keiji, by one of the author's associates, Fr. Jan Van Bragt. One of the most attractive features of Japanese Religiosity resides, not so much in the material handled, as in the way it is investigated. The entire enterprise breathes a spirit of optimism...