Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co-Prosperity

By Christopher Goto-Jonaes

Published by Routledge

“In Political Philosophy in Japan, Christopher Goto-Jones offers a subtle, historically-grounded, and persuasive argument that Nishida’s philosophy was inherently political, and that a properly political – not merely ideological –reading of his work leads us to a better, more effectual understanding of Nishida: as a thinker who fought the good fight against intellectual coercion and imperialism with the best means he had, but was defeated. The value of Goto-Jones’ account lies in showing that it may have been Nishida’s means – his philosophical system as such – that undermined the end he sought to serve. This is an intellectually exciting and most welcome study.” – Professor Andrew Barshay (University of California, Berkeley).

Political Philosophy in Japan  is the first in the series The Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics and History.

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