Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought
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Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought

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Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought

About this book

Kierkegaard knew nothing of Japanese philosophy yet the links between his own ideas and Japanese philosophers are remarkable. The book examines Kierkegaard in terms of Shinto, Pure Land Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, the Samurai, the famous Kyoto school of Japanese philosophers, and in terms of pivotal Japanese thinkers who were influenced by Kierkegaard.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Notes on the Editor and Contributors
  5. Editorial Note
  6. 1 Introduction: Kierkegaard among the Temples of Kamakura
  7. 2 A Short History of Kierkegaard’s Reception in Japan
  8. 3 Japanese Pure Land Buddhism and Kierkegaard
  9. 4 A Zen Understanding of Kierkegaard’s Existential Thought
  10. 5 To Practise One Thing: Kierkegaard through the Eyes of Dōgen
  11. 6 Aeterno Modo: the Expression of an Integral Consciousness in the Work of Kierkegaard and Dōgen
  12. 7 Truth, Paradox, and Silence: Hakuin and Kierkegaard
  13. 8 Living with Death: Kierkegaard and the Samurai
  14. 9 Kierkegaard and Nishida: Ways to the Non-Substantial
  15. 10 The Religious Thought of Nishida and Kierkegaard
  16. 11 Kobayashi’s Spirit of Unselfishness and Kierkegaard’s Faith
  17. 12 Mori and Kierkegaard: Experience and Existence
  18. 13 Otani: a Kierkegaardian Fellow of the Dead
  19. Index