Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru

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Provides a key contemporary source of intercultural dialoguePresents the only edited volume of the last living member of the Kyoto School Constitutes a timely, unique English language edited volume of Uedas work

Autorenportrait

Ralf Müller is a Research Fellow at the Hildesheim University (Germany). He received his PhD at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) and worked as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow for two years at Kyoto University (Japan). Müller is specialized in Japanese philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of language with particular interest in Zen Buddhist thought and the works of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Ernst Cassirer.Raquel Bouso García is an Associate Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, where she received her PhD with a thesis on the notion of emptiness in the thought of Nishitani Keiji. She has translated into Spanish works by Nishitani Keiji, Ueda Shizuteru, and Toshihiko Izutsu, along with other books on Japanese philosophy. She published El zen (Catalan 2008, Spanish 2012) and has coordinated the Spanish translation of Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo (University of Hawaii Press, 2011).Adam Loughnane is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork in Ireland, where he is the Director of the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies. Adam specializes in East-West comparative aesthetics and phenomenology. His research and writings place Continental European thought in dialogue with the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy. In this intercultural context, Adam has published and presented works internationally on issues of language, artistic expression, performance, motor-perception, volition, and non-theistic conceptions of faith.

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