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"Kyoto School" as a book-category denotes works rooted in or engaging with the Kyoto School of philosophy, a 20th-century Japanese intellectual movement that blends Western philosophical methods (German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism) with Buddhist (especially Zen) concepts. Books in this category include primary texts by figures like Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, and Nishitani Keiji, translations and annotated editions, critical commentaries, and comparative studies that probe themes such as “nothingness,” the logic of place (basho), selfhood, absolute–relative dialectics, and the interplay of religion and modernity. Such works tend toward dense, metaphysical and phenomenological inquiry and attract readers interested in East–West philosophical dialogue, Japanese intellectual history, comparative religion, and cross-cultural ethics and aesthetics.
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