Itabashi Yu¯jin is Professor of Philosophy at Rissho¯ University, Japan. He currently serves as the director of the Nishidian Philosophical Society, is a member of the board of directors of the Nishida Philosophy Association, the Japan Schopenhauer Association, and the Japan Society for Whiteheadean Process Studies.Takeshi Morisato is Lecturer of Non-Western philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He currently serves as the Editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy (EJJP) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of East Asian Philosophy (Springer).Cody Staton is Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy at Kennesaw State University, USA.

In this wonderful translation, Morisato and Staton bring the thought of one of Japan's top Nishida scholars to the English-speaking world. Here, Itabashi masterfully illustrates the implicit theory of self, other, and the role of the body in Nishida’s Inquiry, which he skillfully situates within a contemporary context.

• Acknowledgements to the English EditionAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. The Modern Body2. Experience and Body in A Study of the Good3. “Production” and the Body in Later Nishidian Philosophy4. The Breathing Body that Enjoys Suffering the Suffering: When Unravelling the Rigid BodyConclusion: Living While Untangling Body’s Difficulty of LivingIndex

Itabashi Yu¯jin is Professor of Philosophy at Rissho¯ University, Japan. He currently serves as the director of the Nishidian Philosophical Society, is a member of the board of directors of the Nishida Philosophy Association, the Japan Schopenhauer Association, and the Japan Society for Whiteheadean Process Studies.Takeshi Morisato is Lecturer of Non-Western philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He currently serves as the Editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy (EJJP) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of East Asian Philosophy (Springer).Cody Staton is Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy at Kennesaw State University, USA.

In this wonderful translation, Morisato and Staton bring the thought of one of Japan's top Nishida scholars to the English-speaking world. Here, Itabashi masterfully illustrates the implicit theory of self, other, and the role of the body in Nishida’s Inquiry, which he skillfully situates within a contemporary context.

• Acknowledgements to the English EditionAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. The Modern Body2. Experience and Body in A Study of the Good3. “Production” and the Body in Later Nishidian Philosophy4. The Breathing Body that Enjoys Suffering the Suffering: When Unravelling the Rigid BodyConclusion: Living While Untangling Body’s Difficulty of LivingIndex