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The Kyoto School was a philosophical movement primarily active in the first half of the 20th century. Centered at Kyoto University, school members attempted to combine Eastern and Western philosophical traditions, with a special emphasis on Zen and Buddhism. Nishida Kitaro, the school's founder, is most known for his work An Inquiry into the Good. Nishitani Keiji, one of Nishida's main disciples, would become the doyen in the post-war period. Nishitani's works, such as his Religion and Nothingness, primarily dealt with the Western notion of nihilism, ala Nietzsche, and Eastern notions of nothingness, as found in the Buddhist idea of sunyata and the Zen idea of mu. Today, there is a great deal of critical research into the school's role prior to and during the Second World War. There is also a great deal of criticism concerning the school's rather idealized and ahistorical understanding of the "East" and "Buddhism/Zen." Although Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki is often linked with the Kyoto school—and, indeed, was close to Nishida—he is not considered a member.
Notable members
- Nishida Kitaro
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
- Miki Kiyoshi
- Tanabe Hajime
- Nishitani Keiji
- Hisamatsu Shinichi
- Ueda Shizuteru
- Abe Masao
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.@Anklang Also Japan had Kyoto-school philosophers and some of them were Heidegger's pupils.
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.@Anklang Also Japan had Kyoto-school philosophers and some of them were Heidegger's pupils.
Philosophies of Religion in the Kyoto School - Abstracts of papers delivered on this theme.
The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School - A 1984 review by Steven Heine of this collection, from the Journal Philosophy East and West. Notes the limitations of and questions raised by this book, the first English-language book on the Kyoto School.
The Kyoto School - Examines this school's approach to the Eastern and Western traditions, with an emphasis on its prominent members Nishida and Tanabe.
The Kyoto School - A review by Diana L. Pasulka of Heisig's Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School. Concisely summarizes Heisig's approach.
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The Putative Fascism of the Kyoto School - A 1997 article by Graham Parkes from the journal Philosophy East and West. Notes the political failings of the Kyoto School, but cautions against brushing this important tradition aside.
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