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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Japanese philosophy"”.
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The political philosophy of Miki Kiyoshi: A close reading of the philosophical foundations of cooperative communitarianism
… The thesis argues that the Anglophone study of Japanese philosophy is a degenerating research programme ripe for revolution in the sense of returning full circle to an original point. That means returning to the texts, reading them contextually and philologically, in principle as early modern …
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Ephemeral Art: A Philosophical Proposition about the Nature of Time and Being
… which references both Western and Eastern philosophy as well as art theory and practice with a view to exposing how the concept of impermanence has been constructed within contemporary art and the consequent implications. It is also a practice-led enquiry in which my own creative work …
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Heidegger and Nishitani: nothingness, nihilism, and the possibility of meaning
… of nothingness, which invokes Nishitani’s philosophy and his understanding of nothingness and nihilism in his response to Nietzsche. The comparison is between these specific thinkers since not only do both explicitly engage with the problem of nihilism but both critique modernity with great …
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Nihilism and emptiness: Nishitani's encounter with Nietzsche
In this thesis, I examine the relationship between the Kyoto School philosopher, Nishitani Keiji, and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, focusing on the two thinkers’ respective approaches to the problem of nihilism. The work begins by positioning Nishitani’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s account of …