Nishida Kitaro

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Nishida Kitaro is written by Nishitani Keiji and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0788154362 (ISBN 10) and 9780788154362 (ISBN 13).

A translation of essays Nishitani wrote from 1936 to 1968, about his teacher, Nishida Kitaro, Japan's first philosopher of world stature & the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. They were collected & published as a book in 1985. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani, whose lifetime coincides with the rise & flowering of the Kyoto School & whose own critical contribution to Japanese thought has been so important. This series of meditations by one master on another provides a remarkable, living portrait of Nishida the person & conveys the excitement he aroused in his students.