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The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy

Beschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy is the first multi-authored work to cover, in detail and depth, the entire span of this philosophical tradition, from ancient times to the present. It introduces and examines the most important topics, figures, schools, and texts from the history of philosophical thinking in premodern and modern Japan. Each chapter, written by a leading scholar in the field, clearly elucidates and critically engages with its topicin a manner that demonstrates its contemporary philosophical relevance.

Autor

Bret W. Davis is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He attained a PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and has spent more than a dozen years in Japan, during which time he studied Buddhist thought at Otani University, completed the coursework for a second PhD in Japanese philosophy at Kyoto University, and trained as a lay practitioner at Sh?kokuji, a Rinzai Zen monastery in Kyoto. In addition to publishing more than sixty articles in English and in Japanese on various topics in Japanese, continental, and cross-cultural philosophy, he is the author of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (2007); editor of Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts (2014); and coeditor of Sekai no naka no Nihon no tetsugaku [Japanese philosophy in the world] (2005), Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (2011), and Engaging Dogen's Zen: The Philosophy of Practice as Awakening (2017). His translations from German and Japanese include Martin Heidegger's Country Path Conversations (2010), Dogen's "Genjokoan: The Presencing of Truth" (2009), and Ueda Shizuteru's "Language in a Twofold World" (2011). He serves on the editorial board of several journals and is coeditor of Indiana University Press's book series in World Philosophies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 840
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 183mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1588g
• ISBN-13: 9780199945726
• ISBN-10: 0199945721
• Artikelnr.: 56394890