Political philosophy in Japan : Nishida, the Kyoto School and co-prosperity /

Goto-Jones, Christopher S.

Political philosophy in Japan : Nishida, the Kyoto School and co-prosperity / Christopher S. Goto-Jones. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2005. - 192 p. ; 25 cm. - Leiden series in modern East Asian politics and history .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-185) and index.

Introduction : political philosophy in Japan and the contradictory location of Nishida tetsugaku -- Theorising dissent : intellectuals, language, and political sleight-of-hand -- The politics of harmony and awakening : Confucianism and Buddhism as political thought in Japan -- The early Nishida and the place of Japanese political philosophy -- (Re)locating the later Nishida : ideology and philosophy in wartime Japan -- Nishida's shadow : the Kyoto School and the manipulation of nothingness -- Conclusion : the philosophical site of politics in Japan - Shisō sensō, and the defeat of Nishida tetsugaku?

0415335671 (hardback)


Nishida, Kitarō, 1870-1945 --Political and social views.


Political science--Philosophy.--Japan

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