Nishida Kitaro´s Chiasmatic Chorology

Place of Dialectic, Dialectic of Place Introduction Part I. Preliminary Studies 1. From Aristotle’s Substance to Hegel’s Concrete Universal: The Development of Nishida’s Dialectic 2. Hegelian Dialectics and Mahayana Non-Dualism Part II. Dialectics in Nishida 3. Pure Experience, Self-Awareness, and Will: Dialectics in the Early Works (From the 1910s to the 1920s) 4. Dialectics in the Epistemology of Place (From the Late 1920s to the Early 1930s) 5. The Dialectic of the World-Matrix (From the 1930s to the 1940s): Acting Persons 6. The Dialectic of the World-Matrix (From the 1930s to the 1940s): The Dialectical Universal and Contradictory Identity 7. The Dialectic of Religiosity (the 1940s) Part III. Conclusions 8. Nishida and Hegel 9. Nishida, Buddhism, and Religion 10. The Chiasma and the Chora 11. Concluding Thoughts, Criticism and Evaluation Lexicon Notes Bibliography Index