Nishida, Agency, and the 'Self-Contradictory' Body

Author: Krueger, Joel

Source: Asian Philosophy, Volume 18, Number 3, November 2008 , pp. 213-229(17)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

In this essay, I investigate Kitarō Nishida's characterization of what he refers to as the 'self-contradictory' body. First, I clarify the conceptual relation between the self-contradictory body and Nishida's notion of 'acting-intuition'. I next look at Nishida's analysis of acting-intuition and the self-contradictory body as it pertains to our personal, sensorimotor engagement with the world and things in it, as well as to our bodily immersion within the intersubjective and social world. Along the way, I argue that Nishida develops a rich and exceedingly current way of thinking through different facets of embodiment and interpersonal relatedness. I further argue that Nishida's work provides compelling reasons to foreground the mutually implicative, co-emergent nature of embodied self and world in our theorizing about the nature of self and experience.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09552360802439993

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