Chisokudō Publications: 20 books

The present collection brings together selections from the writings of Soga Ryōjin, arguably the most innovative and influential Pure Land Buddhist thinker of twentieth-century Japan. In an attempt to counter the religious skepticism of his age, Soga rejected the idea of a post-mortem soteriology...

For the ninth volume of Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy, titled bilingually in French and English Philosopher la traduction/Philosophizing translation, most of the contributors wrote their articles in foreign languages. By claiming that philosophy has a fundamental “translation-ness”, the editor...

Nishida Kitarō is a translation of essays Nishitani wrote about his teacher between 1936 and 1968. This series of meditation by one master on another provides a remarkable, living portrait of Nishida the person and conveys the excitement he aroused in his students. Focusing on Nishida’s maiden...

Written in the closing months of World War II, Philosophy as Metanoetics seeks to respond to the failure of Japan's philosophical tradition to face up to the political and cultural realities that had landed the country in the war. It calls for nothing less than a complete and radical rethinking of...

This collection is the first of its kind to relate the thought of Nishida Kitarō to both continental and analytic philosophers.  Showing how philosophy takes shape through the translation of language and culture, the author examines the frameworks that have defined and confined Nishida’s thought...

In this book, Sueki discusses the difficult relationship between religion and ethics. He understands ethics as something fundamentally tied to inter-human relationships, which presumes mutual intelligibility. How then do we relate to the "other" – that which cannot be reduced to our comprehension?...

Thomas Martin’s collection of essays, both satirical and pointed, are gathered from his dissident campus newsletter The Examined Life, founded with the purpose of critiquing the life of the secular university at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. The Medieval foundations of the university much...

The present volume is the latest example of what the European network of scholars in Japanese philosophy has been up to in recent few years. The papers collected here, most of them presented at conferences held in Barcelona and Nagoya during the past year, have been arranged in four thematic parts....

In Search of Clarity is a collection of essays, written over a period of more than thirty years, on the Chinese Buddhism of Tiantai Zhiyi and the challenge of translating Chinese Buddhist texts into English. It is meant as a supplementary collection to the author’s recent publication Clear Serenity,...

La religión y la nada, texto clave para superar esa separación occidental entre religión y ciencia, pretende hacer comprensible la experiencia de la tradición budista asiática y la concepción zen de la vida. A partir de las nociones nada y vació, Nishitani Keiji, último gran representante...

Les études ici réunies relèvent le défi d’aborder par le biais de perspectives différentes l’articulation de deux «catégories» fondamentales dans les domaines conceptuellement déterminants de notre histoire, la philosophie et la religion. Si les différents sujets analysés diffèrent...

京都学派を代表する田辺元が、西田哲学を真っ向から批判し、田辺哲学として自身の体系的論理を展開したオリジナル論文集十二稿うちの前半七稿。京都学派哲学及び後期田辺宗教哲学の基礎を成す大作。

京都学派開祖西田幾多郎の処女作（明治四十四年刊）。観念論と唯物論の対立などの哲学上の根本問題解決を純粋経験に求め、主客合一を通し、知識・道徳・宗教一切の基礎づけを試みる、日本初の独創的な哲学体系。

Traduzione italiana a cura di Carlo Saviani Questo volume contiene sette tra i saggi più significativi del filosofo giapponese Ueda Shizuteru, ultimo grande esponente della scuola di Kyoto. Attraverso un confronto serrato con i temi fondamentali del buddhismo zen, della mistica di Meister Eckhart...