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The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy: Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period
The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy: Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period
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Nishida Kitaro is widely considered as the first original philosopher in modern Japan. Addressing this claim, Richard Stone critically examines Nishida's relation to his contemporary philosophers in the Meiji era (1868-1912), highlighting the continuity, difference and relationships between them.
Stone reassesses the notion that Nishida's An Inquiry into the Good (1911) was substantially more philosophically worthwhile than any preceding attempts at philosophy in Japan, whilst demonstrating how his early ideas were heavily influenced by the work of thinkers such as Inoue Enryo, Onishi Hajime and Miyake Setsurei. Heargues that original philosophy in Japan did not suddenly start with Nishida. Instead, it developed within a process of methodological refinement, wherein ideas starting from early Meiji philosophers were gradually given more rigorous treatment over the course of the era, eventually culminating in Nishida's early philosophy.
Providing an in-depth analysis of Nishida's work that brings it into dialogue with his predecessors, The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy offers both an engaging insight into the Meiji Period as the background of Nishida's philosophical formation and also a clear account of how several core themes in modern Japanese philosophy evolved over the course of an era.
Author: Richard Stone
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06/13/2024
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies
Pages: 200
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781350346796
Stone reassesses the notion that Nishida's An Inquiry into the Good (1911) was substantially more philosophically worthwhile than any preceding attempts at philosophy in Japan, whilst demonstrating how his early ideas were heavily influenced by the work of thinkers such as Inoue Enryo, Onishi Hajime and Miyake Setsurei. Heargues that original philosophy in Japan did not suddenly start with Nishida. Instead, it developed within a process of methodological refinement, wherein ideas starting from early Meiji philosophers were gradually given more rigorous treatment over the course of the era, eventually culminating in Nishida's early philosophy.
Providing an in-depth analysis of Nishida's work that brings it into dialogue with his predecessors, The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy offers both an engaging insight into the Meiji Period as the background of Nishida's philosophical formation and also a clear account of how several core themes in modern Japanese philosophy evolved over the course of an era.
Author: Richard Stone
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06/13/2024
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies
Pages: 200
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781350346796
