Hajime Tanabe is considered the leading figure of contemporary Japanese philosophy after Nishida . It, along with this , one of the leading representatives of the Kyoto School , a movement of philosophical, religious , social and political ideas that emerged in Japan upheaval of the early twentieth century and is characterized by an appropriation of Western philosophy from the ancient tradition of Mahayana Buddhism .

Philosophy as metanoética (1945 ) magnum opus of the author confronts Buddhism Shinran ( 1173-1262 ) with Western thinkers such as Eckhart , Kant , Schelling , Hegel , Pascal, Kierkegaard , Nietzsche and Heidegger. The result is a reinterpretation of mystical and a rethinking of religion from the dynamics of nowhere. This provides a useful frame of historical revival , because nothing is one of the most common motifs in the spiritual atmosphere of our time , film , poetry and literature.

James Heisig As noted in the introduction , this translation is the result of decades of collective effort to raise awareness of the Kyoto School , and the historical cataclysms lived their representatives make this school has much to contribute to the history of thought and our societies in crisis.