J. Giles 
Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought 

Kierkegaard knew nothing of Japanese philosophy yet the links between his own ideas and Japanese philosophers are remarkable. The book examines Kierkegaard in terms of Shinto, Pure Land Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, the Samurai, the famous Kyoto school of Japanese philosophers, and in terms of pivotal Japanese thinkers who were influenced by Kierkegaard.

Table of Content

Preface; J.Giles Introduction: Kierkegaard among the Temples of Kamakura; J.Giles A Short History of Kierkegaard’s Reception in Japan; K.Masugata Japanese Pure Land Buddhism and Kierkegaard; H.Yamashita A Zen Understanding of Kierkegaard’s Existential Thought; E.Nishimura To Practise One Thing: Kierkegaard through the Eyes of Dogen; J.Giles Aeterno Modo : The Expression of Integral Consciousness in Kierkegaard and Dogen; I.Mills Truth, Paradox, and Silence: Hakuin and Kierkegaard; A.Graham Living with Death: Kierkegaard and the Samurai; A.Buben Kierkegaard and Nishida: Ways to the Non-Substanitial; E.Hanaoka The Religious Thought of Nishida and Kierkegaard; S.Tsukiyama Kobayashi’s Spirit of Unselfishness and Kierkegaard’s Faith; M.Mizuta Mori and Kierkegaard: Experience and Existence; M.Morita Otani: A Kierkegaardian Fellow of the Dead; K.Masugata

About the author

ADAM BUBEN Presidential Doctoral Fellow in the philosophy department, University of South Florida, USA ARCHIE GRAHAM Postdoctoral Researcher EIKO HANAOKA Professor Emeritus, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan MAKOTO MIZUTA Former Professor of Philosophy and Medical Ethics, Fukuoka Dental College, Japan KINYA MASUGATA President of the Kierkegaard Society of Japan, Professor, Mukogawa Women’s University, Japan IAN MILLS Independent scholar MIME MORITA Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ethics and Women’s Studies, Osaka Christian College, Japan ESHIN NISHIMURA Professor Emeritus, Hanazono University, Japan SHUDO TSUKIYAMA Professor of Intercultural Studies, University of Otani, Japan