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Beyond Personal Identity: Dogen, Nishida, and a Phenomenology of No-Self
Author(s): Gereon Kopf (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 19 Oct. 2001
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 298 pages
- ISBN-10: 0700712178
- ISBN-13: 9780700712175
Book Description
Applies Dogen Kigen’s religious philosophy and the philosophy of Nishida Kitaro to the philosophical problem of personal identity, probing the applicability of the concept of non-self to the philosophical problems of selfhood, otherness, and temporality which culminate in the conundrum of personal identity.
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‘Gereon Kopf … does an outstanding job in taking on the challenge of relating the complex thought of Japanese giants Dogen and Nishida to various Western conceptions of the person.’ – Philosophy East and West
‘Kopf … makes a significant contribution to east-west dialogue.’ – Religious Studies Review
‘Gereon Kopf … does an outstanding job in taking on the challenge of relating the complex thought of Japanese giants Dogen and Nishida to various Western conceptions of the person.’ – Philosophy East and West
‘Kopf … makes a significant contribution to east-west dialogue.’ – Religious Studies Review
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Gereon Kopf
