Intro
Introduction
Overview of Nishida's Thought: From Pure Experience to Self-Identity of Contradictories
The Chapters of the Book
Part I
Part II
Concerning Designation of NKZa and NKZb
A Note on the Texts
Acknowledgments
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Pure Experience
1 Introduction
2 The Core Idea of an Inquiry into the Good
3 Psychology and Philosophy
4 Subject-Object Unity
5 Criticism of Psychology
6 Language and Experience
7 Conclusion
References

Chapter 2: Epistemology of Absolute Free Will: Nishida's Notion of Self-Determination in Relation to Cohen and Schopenhauer
1 Introduction
2 The Epistemological Starting Point in Zen no Kenkyū
3 Nishida's Notion of Self-Determination in Relation to Cohen
5 The Absolute Will
6 Closing Remarks
References
Chapter 3: "Self-Awareness": A Pervasive Concept in Nishida's Philosophy
1 Self-Awareness of Experience
1.1 A Japanese Grasp of Experience as Indicated by its Subjectless Language
1.2 Self-Awareness As Already Embedded in the Fabric of Experience

2 The Development of Self-Awareness
2.1 From Experience to Self-Awareness
2.2 "Fact-Act" and Will
2.3 Self-Awareness as "Place"
2.4 Self-Awareness as it Unfolds from Nothingness
3 Self-Awareness as it Intercrosses with History
References
Chapter 4: The Development of the Concept of Basho (Place) in Nishida's Philosophy
1 The Path to the Turn
1.1 Its Origins in the Theory of Pure Experience
1.2 Self-Awareness and Absolute Free Will
1.3 Returning to Intuition at the Foundation
2 The Standpoint of basho
2.1 The Basho-like Character of Self-Awareness

2.2 Interpretation of Intuition
2.3 The Beginning of Logic
Conculusion
References
Chapter 5: The Dialectical Universal
1 Introduction
2 "The Universal" in An Inquiry into the Good.
3 "The Universal" in the Essay "Place"
4 The Absolute Nothingness and "the Dialectical Universal"
4.1 The Singular Thing and "Our Self"
4.2 "I and Thou"
4.3 The World as the Dialectical Universal
References
Chapter 6: Acting Intuition
1 The Fundamental Structure of Consciousness in the Self-Aware Self
2 The Origin of Time in the Syllogistic Universal

3 The Structure of the Self-Determination of the Eternal Now
4 Fiedler's "Pure Visual Sense" and Acting Intuition
5 The Temporal-Spatial Structure of Acting Intuition as Historical Expressive Formation
References
Chapter 7: Between the Sea and the World of Historical Reality: Reconsideration for a Philosophy of Multiple-Historicity
1 Introduction
2 The "Problematic World" and the Philosophy of Sea
3 Nishida Philosophy in the Times of War
3.1 Logos and Strife
4 Motivations to Philosophize: Wonder, Sorrow, and Fear