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Author Suares, Peter.

Title The Kyoto School's takeover of Hegel : Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe remake the philosophy of spirit / Peter Suares
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 219 p.)
Contents Nishida -- Nishitani -- Tanabe -- The Danish parallel -- Conclusion
Summary "The Kyoto School's Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit is Peter Suares's in-depth analysis of the Kyoto School's integration of Western philosophical idealism with Japanese religious traditions. Suares traces the Kyoto 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 suggests how this problem could have been mitigated, making the School's philosophy of nothingness more effective than it is today."--Pub. desc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index
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Subject Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Nishida, Kitarō, 1870-1945.
Nishitani, Keiji, 1900-1990.
Tanabe, Hajime, 1885-1962.
SUBJECT Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast
Nishida, Kitarō, 1870-1945 fast
Nishitani, Keiji, 1900-1990 fast
Tanabe, Hajime, 1885-1962 fast
Nishida, Kitarō. idszbz
Nishitani, Keiji. idszbz
Tanabe, Hajime. idszbz
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. idszbz
Subject Philosophy, Japanese.
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Philosophy, Japanese
Kioto-Schule.
Rezeption.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021679755
ISBN 9781461634393
1461634393
Other Titles Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe remake the philosophy of spirit