Shizuteru Ueda

Shizuteru Ueda (Japanese上 田 闲 照, Ueda Shizuteru; born January 17, 1926 in the prefecture of Tokyo) is a Japanese philosopher.

Life and work

Shizuteru Ueda, son of a Shingon priest studied in Nishitani Keiji at Kyoto University and from 1959 to 1963 when Friedrich Heiler and Ernst Benz at the University of Marburg, where he met with a dissertation on the mystical anthropology of Meister Eckhart and their confrontation with mysticism of Zen Buddhism doctorate. In 1964, Ueda Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Kyoto, 1977, he received the local Department of Philosophy and Religion. After his retirement in 1989 took place at Kyoto University was Ueda visiting professor at Hanazono University, the only university of the Rinzai shū, located not far from the temple Myoshin -ji in Kyoto. Representing the third generation of the Kyoto school, he leads the heritage Nishida Kitaro on.

" In Ueda's thinking practiced religious and philosophical analysis are interwoven. Based on the ox images of Zen Buddhism and the theory of the place of Nishida Kitaro, he finds a phenomenology of "double -in-the -world " Nothing and self and reality are there in one another in spielhaftem change;. "Self as a non - self " proves to be one reference point from which an understanding of the Lebensweltlichkeit can go out at all. "

Publications in German language (selection)

  • The birth of God in the soul and the breakthrough to the Godhead. The mystical anthropology of Meister Eckhart and their confrontation with the mystique of Zen Buddhism. Poppy, Gütersloh 1965
  • Nothingness and the self in Buddhist thought. To the east-west comparison of the self-understanding of man. Publishing and Company, Basel 1974
  • The upward movement and the downward movement. Zen Buddhism in comparison with Meister Eckhart. In: Eranos Yearbook 50 (1981 ), pp. 223-272.
  • The Zen Buddhist experience of true beauty. In: Eranos Yearbook 53 (1984 ), pp. 197-240.
  • His - Not - responsibility for the world in Zen Buddhism. In: Human responsibility for a habitable world in Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. Edited by Raimundo Panikkar and Walter Strolz, Freiburg, 1985, ISBN 3-451-20533-5, pp. 37-58.
  • The place of man in the Noh play. In Eranos Yearbook 56 (1988 ), pp. 69-103.
  • The absolute nothingness in Zen, Eckhart and Nietzsche. In: Ryosuke Ōhashi (ed. ): The Philosophy of Kyôto school. K. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1990, ISBN 3-495-47694-6, pp. 471-502. ( There pp. 538-540 bibliography of writings or translations of Ueda's in the Western languages ​​)
  • Who and what am I? On the Phenomenology of the Self in Zen Buddhism. K. Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-495-48435-7.
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