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Religion and Nothingness by Keiji Nishitani (1983, Trade Paperback)

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Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible trend of Western civilization to nihilism, and singles out the conquest of nihilism asthe task for contemporary philosophy.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520049462

ISBN-139780520049468

eBay Product ID (ePID)454814

Product Key Features

Book TitleReligion and Nothingness

Number of Pages366 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicReligious, General, Political

Publication Year1983

GenrePhilosophy

AuthorKeiji Nishitani

Book SeriesNanzan Studies in Religion and Culture Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN81-004084

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal210.1

Table Of ContentForeward Translation's Introduction Preface 1. What Is Religion? 2. The Personal and the Impersonal in Religion 3. Nihility and Sunyata 4. The Standpoint of Sunyata 5. Sunyata and Time 6. Sunyata and History Notes Glossary Index

SynopsisIn Religion and Nothingness the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the foundation of thought for a world in the making, for a world united beyond the differences of East and West. Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible trend of Western civilization to nihilism, and singles out the conquest of nihilism as the task for contemporary philosophy. Nihility, or relative nothingness, can only be overcome by being radicalized to Emptiness, or absolute nothingness. Taking absolute nothingness as the fundamental notion in rational explanations of the Eastern experience of human life, Professor Nishitani examines the relevance of this notion for contemporary life, and in particular for Western philosophical theories and religious believes. Everywhere his basic intention remains the same: to direct our modern predicament to a resolution through this insight. The challenge that the thought of Keiji Nishitani presents to the West, as a modern version of an Eastern speculative tradition that is every bit as old and as variegated as our own, is one that brings into unity the principle of reality and the principle of salvation. In the process, one traditional Western idea after another comes under scrutiny: the dichotomy of faith and reason, of being and substance, the personal and transcendent notions of God, the exaggerated role given to the knowing ego, and even the Judeo-Christian view of history itself. Religion and Nothingness represents the major work of one of Japan's most powerful and committed philosophical minds.