NISHIDA KITARO by Keiji, Nishitani - 1991

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first book in a Western language to elucidate the life and thought of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), Japan's first philosopher of world stature and the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani Keiji, whose lifetime coincides with the rise and flowering of the Kyoto School and whose own critical contribution to Japanese thought has also been important. Translated by Yamamoto Seisaku and James W. Heisig, with an introduction by D.S. Clarke, Jr. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with silver titles. Tiny remainder mark to the bottom edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.