Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I The Foundation of the Kyoto School: Nishida and Tanabe
5. Chapter 1 The Logic of Reality in Nishidian Philosophy 17
6. Chapter 2 Nishidian Philosophy in the Genealogy of Groundless Will 42
7. Chapter 3 The Legacy of German Idealism in F. H. Bradley and His Influence on the Early Nishida 62
8. Chapter 4 Absolute Critique in Tanabe Hajime’s Philosophy as Metanoetics 79
9. Chapter 5 Tanabe Hajime and Hegel’s Dialectic A Negative Ground for the Birth of Tanabean Philosophy 102
10. Part II The Critical Evolution of the Kyoto School: Nishitani and Ueda
11. Chapter 6 Philosophical Religion and Absolute Nothingness Nishitani and Schelling, Realization and Revelation 141
12. Chapter 7 On the “European Form of Buddhism”: The Kyoto School and German Philosophy against the Background of Religious Nihilism 159
13. Chapter 8 Transmysticism: Ueda Shizuteru on Zen after Meister Eckhart 182
14. Part III At the Margins of the Kyoto School: Kuki, Kimura, Watsuji, Mori, and Doi
15. Chapter 9 Why Did Kuki Shūzō Say That “Absolute Nothingness Is None Other Than Absolute Being”? 205
16. Chapter 10 Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Kimura Motomori 226
17. Chapter 11 Creative Life in Schiller and Kimura: Discovering Nondualism through Aesthetic Encounters 233
18. Chapter 12 The Dialectic of Absolute Emptiness: Revisiting Watsuji’s Engagement with Hegel 253
19. Chapter 13 The Pedagogic Relationship in Existential Education 268
20. Chapter 14 Schelling, the Avatamsaka Sutra, and the Kyoto School 291
21. Index 313