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Place and Dialectic: Two Essays by Nishida Kitaro Hardcover – 1 December 2011
by Kitaro Nishida (Author), John W M Krummel (Translator), Shigenori Nagatomo (Translator)
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Place and Dialectic presents two essays by Nishida Kitaro, translated into English for the first time by John W.M. Krummel and Shigenori Nagatomo. Nishida is widely regarded as one of the father figures of modern Japanese philosophy and as the founder of the first distinctly Japanese school of philosophy, the Kyoto school, known for its synthesis of western philosophy, Christian theology, and Buddhist thought. The two essays included here are ''Basho'' from 1926/27 and ''Logic and Life'' from 1936/37. Each essay is divided into several sections and each section is preceded by a synopsis added by the translators.
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Place and Dialecticis an outstanding and at times brilliant translation of two essays central to the work of the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro including his trailblazing essay 'Basho.' The translators' sensitivity for the nuances of the Japanese and English languages as well as their first-rate understanding of Nishida's place in the history of philosophy ensure the quality of this must-read for anyone interested in philosophy. This translation will go a long way of making the philosophy of Nishida accessible to those unfamiliar with the Japanese philosophical tradition and language as it highlights Nishida's unique contribution to world philosophy. ― Gereon Kopf, Associate Professor of Religion, Luther College
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"Place and Dialecticis an outstanding and at times brilliant translation of two essays central to the work of the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro including his trailblazing essay 'Basho.' The translators' sensitivity for the nuances of the Japanese and English languages as well as their first-rate understanding of Nishida's place in the history of philosophy ensure the quality of this must-read for anyone interested in philosophy. This translation will go a long way of making the philosophy of Nishida accessible to those unfamiliar with the Japanese philosophical tradition and language as it highlights Nishida's unique contribution to world philosophy." -- Gereon Kopf, Associate Professor of Religion, Luther College "This book decisively elevates the level of Nishida studies, making it amply clear that Nishida developed his thought in response to Western philosophers. 'Basho' (1926) and 'Logic and Life' (1936), meticulously translated here with copious notes, are essential works, wherein Nishida's core philosophical vision, which took shape in the notion of basho (place) and the dialectical world, is unfolded. A must-read for anyone seriously interested in philosophizing on a global stage." -- Michiko Yusa, Professor of Japanese & East Asian Studies, Western Washington University "Nishida was the foremost philosopher of twentieth-century Japan, and the translators of this volume deserve our gratitude for making two of his most significant essays available in English. Now a wider audience can appreciate a truly global thinker of fierce intelligence elaborating an idea of 'place,' or topos, that is clearer and perhaps deeper than Plato's chora, as well as a life-rooted logic that is more Heraclitean than Aristotelian." --Graham Parkes, Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Philosophy & Sociology, University College Cork
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John W.M. Krummel is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Shigenori Nagatomo is Professor of Comparative Philosophy and East Asian Buddhism at Temple University.
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John W.M. Krummel is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Shigenori Nagatomo is Professor of Comparative Philosophy and East Asian Buddhism at Temple University.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press (1 December 2011)
Language : English
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I was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan in a bilingual, bicultural family, to an American father and a Japanese mother. I attended the American School in Japan from Kindergarten to 12th grade. I received my BA with a major in Philosophy from Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana in 1988. I received my MA in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty, NYC, NY in 1994 with a thesis on Heidegger and Foucault. I then received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in 1999 with a dissertation on Heidegger's interpretation of Kant's notion of the imagination. I then received an additional Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA in 2008 with a dissertation on Nishida's dialectical philosophy in relation to Buddhism and Hegel. I am currently Associate Professor and Chair in the Dept. of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and Assistant Editor of Journal of Japanese Philosophy, SUNY Press; Associate Editor of the International Journal of Social Imaginaries, Brill; and Editor of the Social Imaginaries Book Series, RLI.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A superb volume of Nishida translations...Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 30 May 2013
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This volume consists of two long essays "Basho" and "Logic and Life" as well as an excellent translator's introduction. The essays serve as good general introductions to some important Nishida concepts: the concept of basho (enveloping universals), contradictory identity, action-intuition, and the historical world, among others. Nishida is an extremely dense writer. Do not expect an easy read with this text. If you have never read any Nishida before you should definitely start with An Inquiry into the Good . It is, by far, Nishida's most accessible work and there is no way you will be able to follow anything in this book without first achieving some mastery of An Inquiry into the Good.
Most of Nishida's works after An Inquiry into the Good read, to me, almost like notes. They remind me of the abbreviated notes I take when I am working out ideas. I know what I mean so I do not need to spell everything out. I provide just enough information to remind myself later what I was thinking. I do not think Nishida is being purposely obscure, he laments the fact that "after many repetitions in the foregoing discussion ultimately I could not adequately express what I was thinking" (102). The reader is likely to lament the unclarity in places as well. Nishida almost never gives examples and he constantly says things like "And this is how the standpoint of the will arises" as if the connection to what he was just saying was obvious when in reality it is anything but obvious. It often feels like he is skipping steps.
That is why I think this is such an excellent volume. Not only does the translator provide an excellent, and lengthy, introduction to the two essays, placing them in context, and explaining some of the most important concepts and necessary background information, but the notes to the text are extremely extensive and almost constitute a line by line commentary in places. They are not quite line by line but, to put things in perspective, the first essay is around 50 pages and there are 315 footnotes, which run about 30 pages. The notes are pretty much all explanatory notes and they are extremely helpful. I cannot over-emphasize how helpful it was having the notes. I wish that all Nishida translations included such copious notes.
This volume is a bit pricy but, if you are serious about Nishida's philosophy, I think it is definitely a volume that is worth owning. It explains some concepts that are really central to Nishida's philosophy, and central in understanding his last work Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview and, since there are not that many secondaries on Nishida in English, the notes are extremely helpful in clarifying Nishida's often frustratingly dense prose.
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