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Works Cited
Abbreviations Used in this Article
- NKC Nishitani Keiji chosakushû [Collected Works of Nishitani Keiji], Tokyo: Sôbunsha, 1986–95. (Volume numbers are given in Roman numerals.)
- NKZ Nishida Kitarô zenshû [Complete Works of Nishida Kitarô], Tokyo: Iwanami, 1987–89. (Volume numbers are given in Roman numerals.)
- THZ Tanabe Hajime zenshû [Complete Works of Tanabe Hajime], Tokyo: Chikuma Shobô, 1964. (Volume numbers are given in Roman numerals.)
- USS Ueda Shizuteru shû [Collected Writings of Ueda Shizuteru], Tokyo: Iwanami, 2002. (Volume numbers are given in Roman numerals.)
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- Ueda, Shizuteru, 1991, Ikiru to iu koto: keiken to jikaku [What is Called Life: Experience and Self-Awareness], Kyoto: Jinbunshoin. (Scholar)
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- –––, 2010, “Contributions to Dialogue with the Kyoto School,” Bret W. Davis (trans.), in Davis/Schoeder/Wirth 2010. (Scholar)
- –––, forthcoming, “Language in a Twofold World,” Bret W. Davis (trans.), in Heisig/Kasulis/Maraldo forthcoming. (Scholar)
- Ueda, Yoshifumi, 1990, “Tanabe's Metanoetics and Shinran's Thought,” in The Religious Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime, Taitetsu Unno and James W. Heisig (eds.), Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, pp. 134–149. (Scholar)
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Selected Kyoto School Works available in English and other Western languages
Anthologies containing works by more than one Kyoto School author
The texts contained in these anthologies are not listed here separately. (For a complete list of Western language translations of works by Nishida, Tanabe, Nishitani, Takeuchi, and Ueda, see the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture website listed below.)
- Dilworth, David A. and Valdo H. Viglielmo with Agustín Jacinto Zavala (eds.), 1998, Sourcebook for Modern Japanese Philosophy: Selected Documents. Westport: Greenwood Press. (A valuable anthology containing translations of selected works by Nishida, Tanabe, Kuki, Watsuji, Miki, Tosaka, and Nishitani, together with helpful editorial material.) (Scholar)
- Frank, Fredrick (ed.), 1982, The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School, New York: Crossroad. (While somewhat misnamed as an anthology of the Kyoto School, this collection does include a good selection of essays by Nishitani, Ueda, and other modern Japanese religious thinkers.) (Scholar)
- Heisig, James W., Thomas P. Kasulis and John C. Maraldo (eds.), forthcoming, Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. (Scholar) (This soon-to-appear encyclopedic anthology contains a section of representative works by members of the Kyoto School.)
- Jacinto Zavala, Augustín (ed.), 1995, Textos de la filosofía japonesa, Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán. (Scholar)
- Ôhashi, Ryôsuke (ed.), 1990, Die Philosophie der Kyôto-Schule, Freiburg: Karl Alber. (This remains the most important anthology of the Kyoto School in a Western language. It contains valuable introductions by the editor, as well as translations of key essays by Nishida, Tanabe, Hisamatsu, Nishitani, Kôyama Iwao, Kôsaka Masaaki, Shimomura Toratarô, Suzuki Shigetaka, Takeuchi Yoshinori, Tsujimura Kôichi, and Ueda Shizuteru.) (Scholar)
Other Kyoto School Works
- Abe, Masao, 1985, Zen and Western Thought, William R. LaFleur (ed.), London: Macmillan Press (published in North America by University of Hawaii Press). (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, “Kenotic God and Dynamic Sunyata,” in The Emptying God: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation with Masao Abe on God, Kenosis, and Sunyata, John B. Cobb, Jr. and Christopher Ives (eds.), Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, pp. 3–65. (Scholar)
- –––, 1997, Zen and Comparative Studies, Steven Heine (ed.), London: Macmillan Press (published in North America by University of Hawaii Press). (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, Zen and the Modern World, Steven Heine (ed.), Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Includes Abe's articles on Nishida.) (Scholar)
- Hanaoka, Eiko, 2009, Zen and Christianity: From the Standpoint of Absolute Nothingness, Kyoto: Maruzen. (Scholar)
- Hisamatsu, Shin'ichi, 1960, “The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness,” Richard DeMartino (trans.), Philosophical Studies of Japan 2: 65–97. (Scholar)
- –––, 2002, Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition, Christopher Ives and Tokiwa Gishin (ed. and trans.), New York: Palgrave. (Scholar)
- Kuki, Shûzô, 2004, A Philosopher's Poetry and Poetics, Michael F. Marra (trans. and ed.), Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, The Stucture of Iki, in The Structure of Detachment: The Aesthetic Vision of Kuki Shûzô, Hiroshi Nara (ed.), Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Scholar)
- Nishida, Kitarô, 1958, Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness, Robert Schinzinger (trans.), Honolulu: East-West Center Press. (Contains translations of three important essays.) (Scholar)
- –––, 1964, “The Problem of Japanese Culture,” Masao Abe (trans.), in Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2, Ryusaku Tsunoda et al. (eds.), New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 350–365. (Scholar)
- –––, 1970, Fundamental Problems of Philosophy, David A. Dilworth (trans.), Tokyo: Sophia University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1986, “The Logic of Topos and the Religious Worldview,” Michiko Yusa (trans.), The Eastern Buddhist 19/2: 1–29 & 20/1: 81–119. (Scholar)
- –––, 1987, Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness, Valdo Viglielmo et al. (trans.), New York, SUNY. (Scholar)
- –––, 1987, Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview, David A. Dilworth (trans.), Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Scholar) (Also contains introductory and critical essays by the translator.)
- –––, 1990, An Inquiry into the Good, Masao Abe and Christopher Ives (trans.), New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, La culture japonaise en question, Pierre Lavelle (trans.), Paris: Publications Orientalistes de France. (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, Logik des Ortes. Der Anfang der modernen Philosophie in Japan, Rolf Elberfeld (trans.), Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. (Contains translations of Nishida's prefaces to his books and of three of his key essays.) (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, Logique du lieu et vision religieuse de monde, Sugimura Yasuhiko and Sylvain Cardonnel (trans.), Paris: Editions Osiris. (Scholar)
- –––, 2005, “General Summary” from The System of Self-Consciousness of the Universal, in Robert J. J., Wargo, The Logic of Nothingness: A Study of Nishida Kitarô, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 186–216. (Scholar)
- Nishitani, Keiji, 1982, Religion and Nothingness, Jan Van Bragt (trans.), Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1984, “The Standpoint of Zen,” John C. Maraldo (trans.), The Eastern Buddhist 18/1: 1–26. (Scholar)
- –––, 1986, Was is Religion?, Dora Fischer-Barnicol (trans.), Frankfurt: Insel Verlag. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism, Graham Parkes with Setsuko Aihara (trans.), Albany: SUNY. (Scholar)
- –––, 1991, Nishida Kitarô, Yamamoto Seisaku and James W. Heisig (trans.), Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, “Emptiness and Sameness,” in Modern Japanese Aesthetics, Michele Marra (ed.), Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, La religión y la nada, Raquel Bouso García (trans.), Madrid: Ediciones Siruela. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006, On Buddhism, Seisaku Yamamoto and Robert E. Carter (trans.), Albany: SUNY. (Scholar)
- Takeuchi, Yoshinori, 1983, The Heart of Buddhism, James W. Heisig (ed. and trans.), New York: Crossroad. (Scholar)
- Tanabe, Hajime, 1959, “Todesdialektik,” in Martin Heidegger zum siebzigsten Geburtstag: Festschrift, Günther Neske (ed.), Pfullingen: Neske, pp. 93–133. (Scholar)
- –––, 1969, “The Logic of Species as Dialectics,” David Dilworth and Satô Taira (trans.), Monumenta Nipponica 24/3: 273–88. (Scholar)
- –––, 1986, Philosophy as Metanoetics, Takeuchi Yoshinori (trans.), Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Ueda, Shizuteru, 1965, Die Gottesgeburt in der Seele und der Durchbruch zu Gott. Die mystische Anthropologie Meister Eckharts und ihre Konfrontation mit der Mystik des Zen Buddhismus. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn. (Scholar)
- –––, 1989, “Eckhart und Zen am Problem ‘Freiheit und Sprache’,” in Beihefte der Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 31, Köln: E. J. Brill, pp. 21–92. (Scholar)
- –––, 1993, “Pure Experience, Self-Awareness, ‘Basho’,” Etudes Phénoménologiques 18: 63–86. (Scholar)
- –––, 1995, “Nishida's Thought,” Jan Van Bragt (trans.), The Eastern Buddhist 28/1: 29–47. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, Zen y la filosofia, Raquel Bouso (ed.), Barcelona: Editorial Herder. (Scholar)
- –––, 2010, “Contributions to Dialogue with the Kyoto School,” Bret W. Davis (trans.), in Davis/Schoeder/Wirth 2010. (Scholar)
- –––, forthcoming, “Language in a Twofold World,” Bret W. Davis (trans.), in Heisig/Kasulis/Maraldo forthcoming. (Scholar)
- Watsuji, Tetsurô, 1988, Climate and Culture: A Philosophical Study, Geoffrey Bownas (trans.), New York: Greenwood Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1996, Watsuji Tetsurô's Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan, Yamamoto Seisaku and Robert Carter (trans.), Albany: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
Further Reading
Special Issue Journals
- The Eastern Buddhist New Series 25/1, 1992. (A special edition, “In Memoriam Nishitani Keiji 1900–1990.”)
- The Eastern Buddhist New Series 28/2, 1995. (A “Nishida Kitarô Memorial Issue.”)
- Études phénoménologique 18, 1993. (A special issue devoted to “L'école de Kyôto.”)
- Revue philosophique de Louvain, 1994 (no. 4, Novembre). (A special issue devoted to the theme: “La réception européenne de l'école de Kyôto.”)
- Synthesis Philosophica 37, 2004, Zagreb, Croatia. (A special issue devoted to “Japanese Philosophy,” with articles in German, English, and French, many of which are written by leading Japanese scholars of the Kyoto School.) (Scholar)
- Zen Buddhism Today 14, 1997. (An important collection of articles on the theme: “Religion and the Contemporary World in Light of Nishitani Keiji's Thought.”)
- Zen Buddhism Today 15, 1998. (An important collection of articles on the theme: “Nishida's Philosophy, Nishitani's Philosophy, and Zen.”)
Other Works
- Abe, Masao, 1997, “Buddhism in Japan,” in Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, pp. 746–791. (Provides an overview of the history of Japanese Buddhism, ending with D. T. Suzuki as a modern Buddhist thinker and Nishida as a Buddhism-inspired philosopher.) (Scholar)
- Arisaka, Yoko, 1999, “Beyond East and West: Nishida's Universalism and Postcolonial Critique,” in Border Crossings: Toward a Comparative Political Theory, Fred Dallmayr (ed.), New York: Lexington Books, pp. 237–252. (An insightful critical treatment of the ambiguities in Nishida's cultural and political philosophy.) (Scholar)
- Berque, Augustin (ed.), 2000, Logique du lieu et dépassemente de la modernité, two volumes, Bruxelles: Ousia. (Scholar)
- Bouso, Raquel and James W. Heisig (eds.), 2009, Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6: Confluences and Cross-Currents, Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. (Scholar)
- Bowers, Russell H. Jr., 1995, Someone or Nothing: Nishitani's “Religion and Nothingness” as a Foundation for Christian-Buddhist Dialogue, New York: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
- Buchner, Harmut (ed.), 1989, Japan und Heidegger, Sigmaringen: Thorbecke. (Contains chapters on and documents of the relation between Heidegger and the Kyoto School.) (Scholar)
- Buri, Fritz, 1997, The Buddha-Christ as the Lord of the True Self: The Religious Philosophy of the Kyoto School and Christianity, Macon: Mercer University Press. (Scholar)
- Carter, Robert E., 1997, The Nothingness Beyond God: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nishida Kitarô, second edition, St. Paul: Paragon House. (Scholar)
- Cobb, John B. Jr. and Christopher Ives (eds.), 1990, The Emptying God: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation with Masao Abe on God, Kenosis, and Sunyata, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. (Scholar)
- Dale, Peter, 1986, The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness, New York: St. Martin's Press. (Scholar) (A highly critical study of Japanese cultural nationalism.)
- Davis, Bret W., 2002, “Introducing the Kyoto School as World Philosophy,” The Eastern Buddhist, 3 4/2: 142–170. (Critically examines the interpretive theses of James Heisig's important work, Philosophers of Nothingness.) (Scholar)
- –––, 2004a, “The Step Back through Nihilism: The Radical Orientation of Nishitani Keiji's Philosophy of Zen,” Synthesis Philosophica 37: 139–59. (Scholar) (An introduction to the central themes of Nishitani's thought, focusing on his topological phenomenology of a “trans-descendence” through nihilism to the “field of śûnyatâ.”)
- –––, 2004b, “Provocative Ambivalences in Japanese Philosophy of Religion: With a Focus on Nishida and Zen,” in Heisig 2004, pp. 246–274. (Scholar) (Addresses the relation between “philosophy” and “religion” in the Kyoto School, and argues that Nishida and others provoke us to radically rethink both of these terms as well as the relation between them.)
- –––, 2006a, “Rethinking Reason, Faith, and Practice: On the Buddhist Background of the Kyoto School,” Kyoto: Shûkyô-tetsugaku Kenkyû (Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) 23: 1–12. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006b, “Toward a World of Worlds: Nishida, the Kyoto School, and the Place of Cross-Cultural Dialogue,” in Heisig 2006, pp. 205–245. (Scholar)
- –––, 2008a, “Letting Go of God for Nothing: Ueda Shizuteru's Non-Mysticism and the Question of Ethics in Zen Buddhism,” in Hori/Curley 2008, pp. 221–250. (Scholar)
- –––, 2008b, “Turns to and from Political Philosophy: The Case of Nishitani Keiji,” in Goto-Jones 2008, pp. 26–45. (Scholar)
- –––, 2010a, “Dialogue and Appropriation: The Kyoto School as Cross-Cultural Philosophy,” in Davis/Schroeder/Wirth 2010. (Scholar)
- –––, 2010b, “Nishitani after Nietzsche: From the Death of God to the Great Death of the Will,” in Davis/Schroeder/Wirth 2010. (Scholar)
- –––, 2010c, “The Global Displacement of Western Modernity,” in David Jones, Michael Schwartz, and Jason M. Wirth (eds.), The Gift of Logos, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 115–132. (Scholar)
- Davis, Bret W., Brian Schroeder and Jason M. Wirth (eds.), 2010, Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Scholar) (A collection of essays by North American, Japanese, and European scholars aimed at engendering multilateral exchanges between the Kyoto School philosophies and such Continental figures as Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Löwith, Habermas, Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion.)
- Döll, Steffen, 2005, Wozu also suchen? Zur Einführung in das Denken von Ueda Shizuteru, Munich: iudicium. (Contains a scholarly and informative introduction to Ueda's thought, together with an annotated translation of his “The Place of Self-Awareness.”) (Scholar)
- Elberfeld, Rolf, 1999, Kitarô Nishida (1870–1945). Moderne japanische Philosophie und die Frage nach der Interkulturalität, Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Compellingly argues for Nishida's significance as a cross-cultural philosopher.) (Scholar)
- Faure, Bernard, 1995, “The Kyoto School and Reverse Orientalism,” in Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives, Charles Wei-Hsun Fu and Steven Heine (eds.), New York: SUNY Press. (A severely critical treatment of the nationalistic aspects of the Kyoto School.) (Scholar)
- Fujita, Masakatsu (ed.), 1997, Nihon kindai shisô o manabu hito no tame ni [For Students of Modern Japanese Thought], Kyoto: Sekaishisôsha. (Contains helpful introductory chapters on members of the Kyoto School and other key thinkers in modern Japan.) (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, Gendaishisô toshite no Nishida Kitarô [Nishida Kitarô as Contemporary Thought], Tokyo: Kôdansha. (An introduction to Nishida, focusing on the idea of pure experience, the critique of dualism, and the question of language in his early writings.) (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2000ff., Nihon no tetsugaku [Japanese Philosophy], Kyoto: Shôwadô. (An annual journal published by the Department of Japanese Philosophy at Kyoto University.)
- ––– (ed.), 2001, Kyôtogakuha no tetsugaku [The Philosophy of the Kyoto School], Kyoto: Shôwadô. (Contains primary texts from, and critical essays on, eight Kyoto School philosophers.) (Scholar)
- Fujita, Masakatsu and Bret W. Davis (eds.), 2005, Sekai no naka no nihon no tetsugaku [Japanese Philosophy in the World], Kyoto: Shôwadô. (Scholar) (A collection of articles by Western, Chinese and Japanese scholars attempting to hermeneutically situate and critically evaluate the significance of modern Japanese philosophy in the world.)
- Goto-Jones, Christopher S., 2005, Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, The Kyoto School, and Co-Prosperity, London: Routledge. (A provocative new interpretation of the political dimensions of Nishida's philosophy, which argues that Nishida's political thought should be understood neither in terms of Japanese ultranationalism, nor in terms of Western liberalism, but rather as a modern development of Eastern and in particular Mahâyâna Buddhist thought.) (Scholar)
- Hashi, Hisaki, 1999, Die Aktualität der Philosophie. Grundriss des Denkwegs der Kyoto-Schule, Wien: Doppelpunkt. (Scholar)
- Heisig, James W., 1998, “Kyoto School,” in E. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, “Philosophy as Spirituality: The Way of the Kyoto School,” in Buddhist Spirituality: Later China, Korea, Japan and the Modern World, Takeuchi Yoshinori (ed.), New York: Crossroad, pp. 367–388. (Scholar)
- –––, 2001, Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Scholar) (A thorough and lucid introduction to the Kyoto School, focusing on key ideas of Nishida, Tanabe, and Nishitani; includes a wealth of valuable references to the debates that have surrounded the School, and an extensive multilingual bibliography.)
- ––– (ed.), 2004, Japanese Philosophy Abroad, Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. (A valuable collection of scholarly articles presented at an international conference on the past and future of studies of “Japanese philosophy” in the various regions of the world.) (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2006, Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy, Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. (Scholar) (The first of an ongoing series of anthologies that focus largely on the Kyoto School. See also Hori/Curley 2006; Heisig/Uehara 2008; Lam/Cheung 2009; and Bouso/Heisig 2009.)
- Heisig, James W. and John C. Maraldo (eds.), 1994, Rude Awakenings: Zen, The Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (A well-rounded landmark collection of articles on the political controversy surrounding the Kyoto School.) (Scholar)
- Heisig, James W. and Uehara Mayuko (eds.), 2008, Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 3: Origins and Possibilities, Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. (Scholar)
- Himi, Kiyoshi, 1990, Tanabe tetsugaku kenkyû: Shûkyôgaku no kanten kara [Studies of the Philosophy of Tanabe: From the Perspective of Religious Studies], Tokyo: Hokujushuppan. (The most comprehensive single-author work on Tanabe's thought, with a predominant focus on the several stages of his later philosophy of religion.) (Scholar)
- Hori, Victor Sôgen and Melissa Anne-Marie Curley (eds.), 2008, Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 3: Origins and Possibilities, Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. (Scholar)
- Jacinto Zavala, Agustín, 1989, Filosofía de la transformación del mundo: Introducción a la filosofía tardía de Nishida Kitarô, Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán. (One of many valuable texts and translations by the premier Spanish-speaking Nishida and Kyoto School scholar.) (Scholar)
- Kasulis, T. P., 1981, Zen Action/Zen Person, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Scholar) (A classic philosophical introduction to Zen Buddhism by one of the leading scholars of Japanese thought.)
- –––, 1982, “The Kyoto School and the West,” The Eastern Buddhist 15/2: 125–45. (An early review article which includes insightful critical responses to the literature on the Kyoto School that had appeared in the West prior to 1982.) (Scholar)
- Kopf, Gereon, 2001, Beyond Personal Identity: Dôgen, Nishida, and a Phenomenology of No-Self, Richmond, Surry: Curzon Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, “Between Identity and Difference: Three Ways of Reading Nishida's Non-Dualism,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 31/1: 73–103. (A good account of how Nishida's dialogue with his critics, Takahashi Satomi and Tanabe Hajime, assisted him in the pursuit of a philosophy of non-dualism that does not reduce difference to identity.) (Scholar)
- Kosaka, Kunitsugu, 1997, Nishida Kitarô o meguru tetsugakusha gunzô [The Group of Philosophers Surrounding Nishida Kitarô], Kyoto: Minerva. (Contains clear presentations of Nishida's thought in relation to that of Tanabe, Takahashi Satomi, Miki, Watsuji, and Hisamatsu.) (Scholar)
- Lam, Wing-keung and Cheung Ching-yuen (eds.), 2009, Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 4: Facing the 21st Century, Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. (Scholar)
- Laube, Johannes, 1984, Dialektik der absoluten Vermittlung. Hajime Tanabes Religionsphilosophie als Beitrag zum “Wettstreit der Liebe” zwischen Buddhismus und Christentum, Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder. (Scholar)
- Light, Steven, 1987, Shûzô Kuki and Jean-Paul Sartre: Influence and Counter-Influence in the Early History of Existential Phenomenology, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. (Scholar)
- Mafli, Paul, 1996, Nishida Kitarôs Denkweg, Munich: Iudicium Verlag. (Scholar)
- Maraldo, John, 1997, “Contemporary Japanese Philosophy,” in Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, pp. 810–835. (A rich overview that situates the Kyoto School in the wider context of modern and contemporary Japanese philosophy.) (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, “Rethinking God: Heidegger in the Light of Absolute Nothingness, Nishida in the Shadow of Onto-Theology,” in Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics, Jeffery Bloechl (ed.), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 31–49. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, “Defining Philosophy in the Making,” in Heisig 2004, pp. 220–245. (Scholar) (An informative and thought-provoking essay on the question of what “Japanese philosophy” has meant and should mean.)
- –––, 2005, “Ôbei no shiten kara mita Kyôtogakuha no yurai to yukue” [The Whence and Whither of the Kyoto School from a Western Perspective], Azumi Yurika (trans.), in Fujita/Davis 2005, pp. 31–56. (Scholar) (An excellent critical essay on the question of defining the “Kyoto School,” which unfortunately has yet to be published in English.)
- –––, 2006, “The War Over the Kyoto School,” Monumenta Nipponica 61/3 (Autumn 2006): 375–401. (An insightful review article on Goto-Jones 2005 and Williams 2005.) (Scholar)
- Marchianò, Grazia, (ed.), 1996, La Scuola di Kyôto: Kyôto-ha, Messina: Rubberttino. (Scholar)
- Mayeda, Graham, 2006, Time, Space, and Ethics in the Philosophies of Watsuji Tetsurô, Kuki Shûzô, and Martin Heidegger, London/New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Mitchell, Donald W., 1998, Masao Abe: A Zen Life of Dialogue, Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Co. (Consists of thirty-five chapters by different authors reflecting on the significance of Abe's dialogues with philosophers and theologians in the West.) (Scholar)
- Nagatomo, Shigenori, 1995, A Philosophical Foundation of Miki Kiyoshi's Concept of Humanism, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. (Scholar)
- Ôhashi, Ryôsuke, 1984, Zeitlichkeitsanalyse der Hegelschen Logik. Zur Idee einer Phänomenologie des Ortes, Munich: Karl Alber. (Scholar) (A provocative Kyoto School oriented reading of Hegel.)
- –––, 1992, Nihon-tekina mono, Yôroppa-tekina mono [Things Japanese, Things European], Tokyo: Shinchôsha. (Scholar) (Insightfully treats a range of cultural and philosophical issues relating to modern Japan, the Kyoto School and associated thinkers.)
- –––, 1994, Das Schöne in Japan. Philosophisch-ästhetische Reflexionen zu Geschichte und Moderne, Rolf Elberfeld (trans.), Köln: DuMont Buchverlag. (A classic philosophical interpretation of Japanese aesthetics.) (Scholar)
- –––, 1995, Nishida-tetsugaku no sekai [The World of Nishida Philosophy], Tokyo: Chikuma. (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, Hi no genshôron josetsu: Nihontetsugaku no roku têze yori [Prolegomenon to a Phenomenology of Compassion: From Six theses of Japanese Philosophy], Tokyo: Sôbunsha. (Includes chapters on the contemporary relevance of key ideas of Nishida, Tanabe, Nishitani, and Hisamatsu.) (Scholar)
- –––, 1999, Japan im interkulturellen Dialog, München: Iudicium. (Contains a range of essays on Japan's relation to the West, with chapters on and frequent reference to the Kyoto School.) (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2004, Kyôtogakuha no shisô [The Thought of the Kyoto School], Kyoto: Jinbunshoin. (Scholar) (Contains five chapters that critically examine past and present images of the “Kyoto School,” and seven chapters that explore the potential of Kyoto School thought in various areas of contemporary philosophy.)
- Parkes, Graham, 1997, “The Putative Fascism of the Kyoto School and the Political Correctness of the Modern Academy,” Philosophy East and West 47/3: 305–336. (A critical response to polemical treatments of the nationalistic aspects of the Kyoto School, including those by Pincus 1996 and Faure 1995.) (Scholar)
- Pincus, Leslie, 1996, Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shûzô and the Rise of National Aesthetics, Berkeley: University of California Press. (A highly critical treatment of the implications of cultural nationalism in Kuki's aesthetics.) (Scholar)
- Piovesana, Gino K., 1994, Recent Japanese Philosophical Thought, 1862–1996: A Survey, revised edition including a new survey by Naoshi Yamawaki: “The Philosophical Thought of Japan from 1963 to 1996,” Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library (Curzon Press Ltd). (A classic survey of modern Japanese philosophy.) (Scholar)
- Stambaugh, Joan, 1999, The Formless Self, Albany: SUNY Press. (Insightfully discusses Dôgen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani.) (Scholar)
- Stevens, Bernard, 2000, Topologie du néant: Une approche de l'école de Kyôto, Paris: Éditions Peeters. (Scholar)
- Takeda, Atsushi, 2001, Monogatari “Kyôto-gakuha” [The Story of the “Kyoto School”], Tokyo: Chûôkôron Shinsha. (An engaging biographical account of the interpersonal relations and scholarly activities of the Kyoto School.) (Scholar)
- Tanaka, Kyûbun, 2000, Nihon no “tetsugaku” o yomitoku [Reading Japanese “Philosophy”], Tokyo: Chikuma Shinsho. (Consists of introductory chapters on Nishida, Watsuji, Kuki, and Miki.) (Scholar)
- Tremblay, Jacynthe, 2000, Nishida Kitarô: Le jeu de l'individuel et de l'universel, Paris: CNRS Editions. (Scholar)
- Tsunetoshi, Sôzaburô, 1998, Nihon no tetsugaku o manabu hito no tame ni [For Students of Japanese Philosophy], Kyoto: Sekaishisôsha. (Consists of introductory chapters mostly on Kyoto School philosophers.) (Scholar)
- Ueda, Shizuteru, 1992, Nishida Kitarô o yomu [Reading Nishida Kitarô], Tokyo: Iwanami. (The first of many influential books on Nishida by Ueda, in which Ueda develops his own thought by way of carefully reading Nishida's texts, beginning with An Inquiry into the Good.) (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 1992, Jôi ni okeru kû [Emptiness in Passion], Tokyo: Sôbunsha. (An important collection of essays on Nishitani.)
- ––– (ed.), 1994, Nishida-tetsugaku [Nishida Philosophy], Tokyo: Sôbunsha. (An important collection of essays on Nishida.) (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2006, Zen to Kyoto-tetsugaku [Zen and Kyoto Philosophy], Kyoto: Tôeisha. (An important anthology on the most significant twentieth century Japanese philosophers who were engaged in the study and practice of Zen.) (Scholar)
- Ueda, Shizuteru and Horio Tsutomu (eds.), 1998, Zen to gendaisekai [Zen and the Modern World], Kyoto: Zenbunka Kenkyûsho. (Consists of chapters on Nishida, D. T. Suzuki, Nishitani, and Hisamatsu, addressing the relation of their thought to Zen.) (Scholar)
- Unno, Taitetsu (ed.), 1989, The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji, Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press. (A landmark collection of responses to Nishitani's philosophy of religion.) (Scholar)
- Unno, Taitetsu and James W. Heisig (eds.), 1990, The Religious Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime, Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press. (A landmark collection of responses to Tanabe's philosophy of religion.) (Scholar)
- Unno, Taitetsu, 1998, River of Fire, River of Water: An Introduction to the Pure Land Tradition of Shin Buddhism, New York: Double Day. (An accessible and engaging introduction to Shin Buddhist thought.) (Scholar)
- Waldenfels, Hans, 1980, Absolute Nothingness: Foundations for a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, J. W. Heisig (trans.), New York: Paulist Press. (An important early Western work focusing on Nishitani from the perspective of Buddhist-Christian dialogue.) (Scholar)
- Wargo, Robert J. J., 2005, The Logic of Nothingness: A Study of Nishida Kitarô, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (A landmark philosophical study which traces the early development of Nishida's thought from out of the context of Japanese philosophy in the Meiji period, and which focuses in particular on the subsequent development of his unique “logic of basho.”) (Scholar)
- Wilkinson, Robert, 2009, Nishida and Western Philosophy, Surrey, UK: Ashgate. (An account of Nishida's philosophy which sets his thought in the context of his Eastern background as well as his critical dialogue with Western philosophers such as James, Bergson, Fichte, the Neo-Kantians, and Hegel.) (Scholar)
- Williams, David, 2005, Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power, London/New York: Routledge. (A highly provocative revisionist account of the Pacific War and defense of the Kyoto School's wartime political thought, which centers on an interpretation of Tanabe as a pioneer “post-White” political philosopher.) (Scholar)
- Yusa, Michiko, 1997, “Contemporary Buddhist Philosophy,” in A Companion to World Philosophies, Eliot Deutsch and Ron Bontekoe (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 564–572. (Scholar)
- –––, 2002, Zen & Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarô, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (A very informative and lucid account of Nishida's personal and scholarly life, including his relations with other Kyoto School thinkers.) (Scholar)
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