Bret W. Davis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland.

Brian Schroeder is Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy and Director of Religious Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Jason M. Wirth is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University.

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Works by the Kyoto School

Introduction: Conversations on an Ox Path

Part 1. The Kyoto School and Dialogue

1. Contributions to Dialogue with the Kyoto School / Ueda Shizuteru

2. Dialogue and Appropriation: The Kyoto School as Cross-Cultural Philosophy / Bret W. Davis

3. Tanabe Hajime's Logic of Species and the Philosophy of Nishida Kitaro: A Critical Dialogue within the Kyoto School / Sugimoto Koichi

Part 2. Self and World

4. Philosophy as Auto-Bio-Graphy: The Example of the Kyoto School / Ohashi Ry¿suke

5. Nishitani after Nietzsche: From the Death of God to the Great Death of the Will / Bret W. Davis

6. Empty Soul, Empty World: Nietzsche and Nishitani / David Jones

7. Ueda Shizuteru's Phenomenology of Self and World: Critical Dialogues with Descartes, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty / Steffen Döll

Part 3. God and Nothingness

8. Nothing Gives: Marion and Nishida on Gift-giving and God / John C. Maraldo

9. Language Games, Selflessness, and the Death of God: A/Theology in Contemporary Zen Philosophy and Deconstruction / Gereon Kopf

10. Buddha and God: Nishida's Contributions to a New Apocalyptic Theology / Thomas J. J. Altizer

Part 4. Ethics and Politics

11. Other-Power and Absolute Passivity in Tanabe and Levinas / Brian Schroeder

12. Beyond the Binary: Watsuji Testuro and Luce Irigaray on Body, Self, and Ethics / Erin McCarthy

13. Overcoming Modernity: A Critical Response to the Kyoto School / Bernard Stevens

14. Heidegger and Japanese Fascism: An Unsubstantiated Connection / Graham Parkes

Part 5. Grammar, Art, and Imagination

15. The Middle Voice of Emptiness: Nishida and Nishitani / Rolf Elberfeld

16. Truly Nothing: The Kyoto School and Art / Jason M. Wirth

17. Logos and Pathos: Miki Kiyoshi's Logic of the Imagination / Fujita Masakatsu

List of Contributors

Index