Provides a key contemporary source of intercultural dialogue

Presents the only edited volume of the last living member of the Kyoto School

Constitutes a timely, unique English language edited volume of Ueda's work

Provides a key contemporary source of intercultural dialogue Presents the only edited volume of the last living member of the Kyoto School Constitutes a timely, unique English language edited volume of Ueda's work

Autorentext

Ralf Müller is a Research Fellow at the Hildesheim University (Germany). He received his PhD at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) and worked as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow for two years at Kyoto University (Japan). Müller is specialized in Japanese philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of language with particular interest in Zen Buddhist thought and the works of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Ernst Cassirer.

Raquel Bouso García is an Associate Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, where she received her PhD with a thesis on the notion of emptiness in the thought of Nishitani Keiji. She has translated into Spanish works by Nishitani Keiji, Ueda Shizuteru, and Toshihiko Izutsu, along with other books on Japanese philosophy. She published El zen (Catalan 2008, Spanish 2012) and has coordinated the Spanish translation of Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo (University of Hawai'i Press, 2011).

Adam Loughnane is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork in Ireland, where he is the Director of the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies. Adam specializes in East-West comparative aesthetics and phenomenology. His research and writings place Continental European thought in dialogue with the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy. In this intercultural context, Adam has published and presented works internationally on issues of language, artistic expression, performance, motor-perception, volition, and non-theistic conceptions of faith.

Inhalt
Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Ueda (I) (Ueda Shizuteru).- Chapter 2. Introduction to Ueda (II) (Bret W. Davis).- Part 2. Mysticism East and West.- Chapter 3. Ueda, Reader of Eckhart (Bernard Stevens).- Chapter 4. Ueda's Interpretation of the Ten Ox-herding Pictures (Gereon Kopf).- Chapter 5. Ueda's Nishida and Heidegger Synthesis (John Krummel).- Chapter 6. Ueda and Buber (Raquel Bouso).- Part 3. Dialogue with Modern Philosophy.- Chapter 7. Self Awareness and Transcendental Reflection (Ishihara Yuko).- Chapter 8. The Double Being-in-the-World and Nature (ta Hironobu).- Chapter 9. On Poetic Language (Adam Loughnane).- Chapter 10. On I and Thou (Uehara Mayuko).- Part 4. Langauge and Nothingness.- Chapter 11. Zen, Language, Silence (Ralf Müller).- Chapter 12. Nothingness and The Poetic Experience: Valente and Ueda (Pablo Acosta).- Chapter 13. On Nothingness (LaurentiuAndrei).- Chapter 14. Feeling the Real in Language (Kuwayama Yukiko). <p