Nothingness in the heart of empire. The moral and political philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan

Osaki, Harumi

The Kyoto School groups together a number of Japanese philosophers who were under the tutelage or influence of its founder, Nishida Kitarō. The Kyoto School was at its zenith during both the prewar and wartime periods, when Nishida was still alive. Its philosophers' involvement in the wartime situat