Hajime Tanabe

Nihongo|Hajime Tanabe|田辺 元|Tanabe Hajime|February 3, 1885 - April 29, 1962 was a Japanese major philosopher of the Kyoto School.

Bibliography

"Philosophy as metanoetics", translated by Takeuchi Yoshinori with Valdo Viglielmo and James W. Heisig, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1986.

Primary Sources

Tanabe, Hajime, "Introduction to the philosophy of Tanabe: According to the English translation of the seventh chapter of the demonstratio of Christianity", edited by Makoto Ozaki, Rodopi (1990), ASIN|B0006F1CBU.

* --, "The Logic of The Species as Dialectics," trns. David Dilworth; Taira Sato, in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1969), pp. 273-288. [Available as pdf through JSTOR]

* --, "Philosophy as Metanoetics" (Nanzan studies in religion and culture), Yoshinori Takeuchi, Valdo Viglielmo, and James W. Heisig (Translators), University of California Press (April 1987), ISBN 0520054903.

* --, "Religious Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime: The Metanoetic Imperative" (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture), edited by Taitetsu Unno, James W. Heisig, Asian Humanities Press (June 1990), ISBN 0895818736, ISBN 978-0895818737.

Secondary Sources

"Books and Theses"

Adams, Robert William, "The feasibility of the philosophical in early Taishô Japan [microform] : Nishida Kitarô and Tanabe Hajime", Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1991.

Dilworth, David A. and Valdo H. Viglielmo (translators and editors); with Agustin Jacinto Zavala, "Sourcebook for modern Japanese philosophy : selected documents", Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.

Fredericks, James L., "Alterity in the thought of Tanabe Hajime and Karl Rahner" [microform] , Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1988.

Ozaki, Makoto, "Individuum, Society, Humankind: The Triadic Logic of Species According to Hajime Tanabe" (Brill's Japanese Studies Library), Brill Academic Publishers (April 2001), ISBN 9004121188, ISBN 978-9004121188.

Pattison, George, "Agnosis: Theology in the Void", Palgrave Macmillan (February 1997), ISBN 0312162065. ISBN 978-0312162061.

"Articles"

Heisig, James W., "Tanabe's Logic of the Specific and the Critique of the Global Village," in "Eastern Buddhist", Autumn95, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p198, (AN 11229660)

Ruiz, F. Perez, "Philosophy in Present-day Japan," in "Monumenta Nipponica" Vol. 24, No. 1/2 (1969), pp. 137-168. [Available as pdf through JSTOR]

Sakai, Naoki, "SUBJECT AND SUBSTRATUM : ON JAPANESE IMPERIAL NATIONALISM," in "Cultural Studies"; Jul2000, Vol. 14 Issue 3/4, p462-530 (AN 4052788)

Viglielmo, V. H., "An Introduction to Tanabe Hajime's Existence, Love, and Praxis" in "Wandel zwischen den Welten: Festschrift für Johannes Laube", (Peter Lang, 2003) pp. 781-797.

Waldenfels, Hans, "Absolute Nothingness. Preliminary Considerations on a Central Notion in the Philosophy of Nishida Kitaro and the Kyoto School," in "Monumenta Nipponica," Vol. 21, No. 3/4 (1966), pp. 354-391. [Available as pdf through JSTOR]

Williams, David, "In defence of the Kyoto School: reflections on philosophy, the Pacific War and the making of a post-White world," in "Japan Forum", Sep2000, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p143-156. [Available through Academic Search Premier]

Online Links

Buri, Fritz, [http://books.google.com/books?id=e_7D5x5VmwoC&pg=RA1-PA65&dq=Hajime+Tanabe&lr=&ei=rmOCSL-sMIWoigGRt9SRCA&sig=ACfU3U0JSs-n1iYUxonkApyuUBmLT6UmoQ#PRA1-PA65,M1 "Hajime Tanabe, Philosophy of repentance and Dialectic of Death," in "The Buddha-Christ as the Lord of the True Self: The Religious Philosophy of the Kyoto School",] trns. by Harold H. Oliver, Mercer University Press, 1997, pp. 65-94. [via Google Books]

Driscoll, Mark, [http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/tympanum/4/driscoll.html "Apoco-elliptic Thought in Modern Japanese Philosophy"]

Hajime, Tanabe, "Jitsuzon to ai to jissen (Existence, Love, and Praxis) [1947] ", (from vol. 9, Complete Works of Tanabe Hajime), Tokyo, Chikuma Shobô, 1963. A partial translation by V. H. Viglielmo [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~valdo/] , for which the Preface, Chapter One, and translator's introductory essay are published in “An Introduction to Tanabe Hajime’s Existence, Love, and Praxis." in "Wandel zwischen den Welten: Festschrift für Johannes Laube," Peter Lang, 2003.

Mierzejewska, Anna, [http://www.silvajp.amu.edu.pl/Silva%206.pdf "The Buddhist Inspiration of The Concept of Faith in The Philosophy of Hajime Tanabe,"] in SILVA IAPONICARUM, FASC. VI・第六号, WINTER ・冬 2005, pp. 18-37.

Odin, Steve, [http://books.google.com/books?id=XL2I-8ECemoC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=Hajime+tanabe+article&source=web&ots=QQdOYAZI0_&sig=tS-a94LVdgcs0jNFN8TsNhiAuRQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA114,M1 "Hajime Tanabe," in "The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism"] , pp. 114-117.

Ozaki, Makoto, [http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Comp/CompOzak.htm "On Tanabe's Logic of Species,"] in "ΠΑΔΕΙΑ: Comparative Philosophy".

--- ---, [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=HaY2RgxpaigC&dq=Philosophy+of+Tanabe:+According+to+the+Seventh+Chapter+of+the+Demonstratio+of+Christianity&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=LON3_3W53C&sig=wc34AriRMb8s1zig3THoc_K6cUs&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA13,M1 Introduction to the Philosophy of Tanabe: According to the Seventh Chapter of the Demonstratio of Christianity,] [Doctoral Thesis] Amsterdam, Eerdmans Publishing Company, [1990?] [via Google Books Online] .

Tanabe, Hajime, [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=7o2reoAnm2sC&dq=Hajime+tanabe+article&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=z60uLMGCzt&sig=OqWr9VeAHRMHrMnCJyPqFUVp1RI&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPR18,M1 Philosophy as Metanoetics,] (Nanzan studies in religion and culture), T. Yoshinori (Translator), University of California Press (April 1987). [numerous pages missing] [via Google Books]

Wattles, Jeffrey, [http://fp.dl.kent.edu/jwattles/metanoeticsl.htm "Dialectic and Religious Experience in Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy as Metanoetics"]

-- --, [http://fp.dl.kent.edu/jwattles/BTanabesummary1.htm Philosophy and Spiritual Experience: The case of a Japanese Shin Buddhist]

* [http://www.akshin.net/philosophy/budphilkyoto.htm Kyoto School of Philosophy] .