The Kyoto School's Takeover Of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, And Tanabe Remake The Philosophy Of Spirit
by Peter Suares /
2010 / English / PDF, EPUB
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The Kyoto School's Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and
Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit
The Kyoto School's Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and
Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit is Peter Suares'
in-depth analysis of the Kyoto School's integration of Western
philosophical idealism with Japanese religious traditions. Suares
traces the School's attempts to develop a doctrine of absolute
nothingness using Hegel's dialectic of self-consciousness. Hegel's
dialectic plays a formative role in the work of the three principal
figures of the School―Nishida Kitaro, Nishitani Keiji, and Tanabe
Hajime―yet many of its aspects are difficult to integrate with
their neo-Buddhist outlook. Suares shows how this difficulty
manifests itself in the ambivalence of the three philosophers
toward Hegel: they are not only his adherents, but also his
outspoken critics. Their criticism itself is no less problematic.
The ostensibly Hegelian ideas denounced by Nishida, Nishitani, and
Tanabe are often difficult to identify in his philosophy. On the
other hand, many of their own theses, which they advance in express
opposition to Hegel, are in fact quite compatible with his
teachings. Given the pivotal importance of Hegel to the Kyoto
School, Suares demonstrates how these misreadings signal a problem
with the coherence of the School's broader worldview.
is Peter Suares'
in-depth analysis of the Kyoto School's integration of Western
philosophical idealism with Japanese religious traditions. Suares
traces the School's attempts to develop a doctrine of absolute
nothingness using Hegel's dialectic of self-consciousness. Hegel's
dialectic plays a formative role in the work of the three principal
figures of the School―Nishida Kitaro, Nishitani Keiji, and Tanabe
Hajime―yet many of its aspects are difficult to integrate with
their neo-Buddhist outlook. Suares shows how this difficulty
manifests itself in the ambivalence of the three philosophers
toward Hegel: they are not only his adherents, but also his
outspoken critics. Their criticism itself is no less problematic.
The ostensibly Hegelian ideas denounced by Nishida, Nishitani, and
Tanabe are often difficult to identify in his philosophy. On the
other hand, many of their own theses, which they advance in express
opposition to Hegel, are in fact quite compatible with his
teachings. Given the pivotal importance of Hegel to the Kyoto
School, Suares demonstrates how these misreadings signal a problem
with the coherence of the School's broader worldview.The Kyoto
School's Takeover of Hegel
The Kyoto
School's Takeover of Hegel suggests how this problem could have
been mitigated, making the School's philosophy of nothingness more
effective than it is today.
suggests how this problem could have
been mitigated, making the School's philosophy of nothingness more
effective than it is today.