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
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