Nishida Kitarō's Chiasmatic Chorology

John W. M. Krummel is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

The current volume constitutes an enormous contribution to Nishida scholarship, comparative philosophy, and postmodern visions of and for a global world. It provides inspiring scholarship on Nishida and, at the same time, invites subsequent creative reflections. In short, it constitutes philosophical reflection at its best.(Japanese Journal of Religious Studies) [This] volume constitutes an enormous contribution to Nishida scholarship, comparative philosophy, and postmodern visions of and for a global world. It provides inspiring scholarship on Nishida and, at the same time, invites subsequent creative reflections. In short, it constitutes philosophical reflection at its best.(Journal of Japanese Studies)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Preliminary Studies1. From Aristotle's Substance to Hegel's Concrete Universal: The Development of Nishida's Dialectic2. Hegelian Dialectics and Mahāyāna Non-DualismPart II. Dialectics in Nishida3. Pure Experience, Self-Awareness, and Will: Dialectics in the Early Works (From the 1910s to the 1920s)4. Dialectics in the Epistemology of Place (From the Late 1920s to the Early 1930s)5. The Dialectic of the World-Matrix (From the 1930s to the 1940s): Acting Persons6. The Dialectic of the World-Matrix (From the 1930s to the 1940s): The Dialectical Universal and Contradictory Identity7. The Dialectic of Religiosity (the 1940s)Part III. Conclusions8. Nishida and Hegel9. Nishida, Buddhism, and Religion10. The Chiasma and the Chōra11. Concluding Thoughts, Criticism and EvaluationLexiconNotesBibliographyIndex