Keiji nishitani biography

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          西谷啓治 Nishitani Keiji (1900-1990)
          aka 溪聲 西谷啓治 Nishitani “Keisei” Keiji

           

          Nishitani Keiji. (西谷啓治) (1900–1990).

          Japanese philosopher and member of
          what came to be known as the KYOTO SCHOOL, a contemporary school of
          Japanese philosophy that sought to synthesize ZEN Buddhist thought with modern
          Western, and especially Germanic, philosophy.

          Keiji nishitani philosophy

        1. Keiji nishitani philosophy
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        4. The religious philosophy of nishitani keiji: encounter with emptiness
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        6. Nishitani was schooled in
          Ishikawa prefecture and Tōkyō and graduated from Kyōto University in 1924
          with a degree in philosophy. A student of NISHIDA KITARŌ (1870–1945), the
          founder of the Kyoto School, Nishitani became a professor in the Department of
          Religion at Kyōto University in 1935 and from 1937 to 1939 studied with Martin
          Heidegger in Freiburg, Germany.

          He later chaired the Department of Modern
          Philosophy at Kyōto Prefectural University from 1955 to 1963. In such works as
          his 1949 Nihirizumu (translated in 1990 as The Self-Overc