History, transhistory, and narrative history: a postmodern view of Nishitani's philosophy of Zen. (Keiji Nishitani)

From: Philosophy East and West | Date: April 1, 1994| Author: Heine, Steven | Copyright information

Keiji Nishitani in 'Religion and Nothingness' uses Zen philosophy to criticize the Western concept of history as linear and teleological. However, his argument is called into question by later developments that have shown a mythical element in Zen historiography, as well as by changes in the Western concept of history since postmodernism. Zen history may not conform to Nishitani's idealized presentation, but its mythical and demythologizing elements work together by undermining one another. P...

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