Keiji Nishitani
Japanese philosopher
Keiji Nishitani was a Japanese philosopher. He was a scholar of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Kitarō Nishida. In 1924, Nishitani received his doctorate from Kyoto Imperial University for his dissertation "Das Ideale und das Reale bei... Wikipedia
Born: February 27, 1900, Ishikawa, Japan
Died: November 24, 1990 (age 90 years), Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Influenced by: Martin Heidegger, Hajime Tanabe, and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Main interests: Philosophy of religion, nihilism, nothingness, emptiness, mysticism
School: Kyoto School
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