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"Can you type?" asked the colonel. So began young Sue Ward's induction into army life. She joined the army - the first ever Canadian Women's Army Corps - hoping to go overseas to entertain the troops fighting World War II. Instead, she spent the next four years travelling from coast to coast, entertaining the home troops and, as lieutenant, looking out for her "gals."
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A tedious read, with some real gems within........2005-10-28
Nishida's book was a bit tedious. The translation seems good and his writing style isn't deliberately cryptic. Familiarity in Eastern thought, particularly Zen Buddhist thought, greatly aids making sense of what he says. Also a familiarity with Kant and Hegel (whom he responds to) and the Western tradition would be greatly helpful.
Aside from his key point on reckoning with things in their immediacy (paraphrase), I found quite a gem in his description of God in his later chapters -- a view of God even atheistic materialists might agree with.
All in all a good book, lacking in style but not in substance.
Difficult...could be rewarding.......2004-02-19
Nishida's writing is heavily influenced by Zen. A bit of introduction to it will make many parts of this book more coherent. That is not to say that this book is pointless without an exposure to Zen, but rather that it rewards the reader with a passing familiarity with the subject. For the reader without such a background, it could still prove fruitful, but it will definitely require multiple readings.
Nishida's writing is difficult to follow. He was trying to write a philosphical text in the Western tradition; the particular tradition seems to be German idealism, so his writing seems like Hegel and Kant: hard to penetrate. His argumentation is sparse in many parts since he is laying out so much. When he finally gets around to it, he presents some very interesting ideas. He gives us a good critique of Cartesian dualism. He also gives us a fairly unique (in my opinion) explanation of the self and its relation to the world. It is unfortunate (in my opinion, again) that he wasn't trained in the Analytic style that was soon to come into vogue in other parts of the world. He seems like he could have done some really neat things. As it stands, he did some interesting things with this book that are not studied for the most part. This is sad since it is a very original work.
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Written by one of Japan's foremost contemporary thinkers and scholars, Zen and Modern Society is the third in a series of essay collections on Zen Buddhism as seen in the context of Western thought. Throughout his career, Masao Abe has articulated the meaning of Zen thought in a uniquely compelling way--at once, true to the original tradition and appropriately relevant to a variety of comparative standpoints, ranging from Biblical Judeo-Christianity to modern existentialism, phenomenology, and postmodernism. As a leading representative of the Kyoto School, which has sought a critical, comparative linking of Eastern and Western thought, Abe has based his approach on constructive, mutually respectful yet critical intellectual interaction and dialogue with some of the leading figures in the West (including Paul Tillich, Hans Kung, and Eugene Borowitz) as well as dozens of colleagues, students, and disciples.
Together with the previous volumes, this work examines and exemplifies some key features of Kyoto School thought. While the essays presented here should be read in light of the socio-political criticism that has since been lodged against the Kyoto School and, more particularly, its founder Nishida Kitaro, most of them were written prior to the recent discussions and focus on issues of comparative philosophy and religious thought outside the contours of the debate. This should not, however, limit their approach to the earlier historical context. Abe's own distinct philosophy will almost certainly continue to influence a host of scholars, thinkers, and religionists for many years to come. His body of work reveals an original and innovative way of thinking that conveys an important message relating traditional Buddhist notions of nothingness and awakening to the contemporary scene.
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First-rate scholarship on Japanese philosophy.......2005-07-25
"Philosophers of Nothingness" is everything the leaders in the field of modern Japanese philosophy say it is, and more. Although I approached the book expecting to find it full of exotic jargon, I was surprised to find the philsophical language familiar and the presentation easy to follow. Heisig writes with a style that must be the envy of his colleagues: clear, engaging, and with fluency that pulls you along through even the most difficult material. His decision to isolate the technical material into notes written in prose style makes the book still more accessible to readers who might otherwise be frightened off by references to the vast amount of Japanese resources that lay behind the book.
Translations into English of the three philosophers that he treats--Nishida, Tanabe, and Nishitani--are numerous enough, but picking them up without sufficient understanding of where they are coming from caused many of us no end of confusion. Thanks to Heisig, we now have a general matrix in which to fit their ideas. The challenge of the Kyoto School to "Western" philosophers has never been more evident. If there is one complaint I have, it is that Heisig did not include a translation of the preface that Raimon Panikkar, the celebrated Catalan philosopher, wrote for the original Spanish edition of the book.
Mediocre.......2004-02-16
Heisig's work attempts to summarize the entirety of the three main Kyoto school philosophers. The summaries range from alright to bad. He glosses over terms quickly and doesn't explore any depth nor does he point out points of controversy. Even though these are summaries, they seem fairly vapid. It doesn't help that many of the works discussed are not available in English. The capstone for the book is when he talks about why these philosophers aren't studied much. One can't help but think this is the thing he got most correct. They don't fit into most phil. departments and they don't fit into most East Asian studies departments. This book doesn't seem fit for an intro course nor does it seem fit for a focused seminar. Unfortunately, Heisig's book is forgettable.
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The writings of Nishida Kitarô, whose name has become almost synonymous with Japanese philosophy, continue to attract attention around the world. Yet studies of his thought in Western languages have tended to overlook two key areas: first, the influence of the generation of Japanese philosophers who preceded Nishida; and second, the logic of basho (place), the cornerstone of Nishida's mature philosophical system.
The Logic of Nothingness addresses both of these topics. Robert Wargo argues that the overriding concern of Nishida's mature philosophy, the attempt to give a reasonable account of reality that includes the reasonableness of that account itself—or what Wargo calls "the problem of completeness"—has its origins in Inoue Enryô's (1858-1919) and Inoue Tetsujirô's (1855-1944) preoccupation with "the problem of standpoints." A translation of one of Nishida's most demanding texts, included here as an appendix, demonstrates the value of Wargo's insightful analysis of the logic of basho as an aid to deciphering the philosopher's early work.
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Challenging, helpful book in need of the logic of proofreading.......2006-01-26
In this book, Wargo aims to uncover the structure of Nishida's system of thought and clarify it, especially by examining his concept of Basho ("topos" or "locus" or whatnot). All in all, he does a fine job of this, and by the end of the book when we come to a translation of an essay by Nishida, the latter's prose--usually all but opaque to me--actually started to make sense in spots. Still, the book as a whole is tough reading, and a strong background in the academic field of philosophy is probably necessary to really get what's going on. (In fact, Wargo displays many of the characteristic biases and nervous ticks of philosophy majors in his writing, which gets just a bit annoying in spots).
On the minus side, the book is badly infested with typographical errors, about one every other page. The editing here is just utterly shoddy, and given the care philosophers usually take with precise language, almost blasphemously ironic. Worst of the worst can be found in chapter 1: Inoue Tetsujiro is most of the time referred to by his first name here (to distinguish him from Inoue Enryo), but the name is incorrectly given as Tetsuro countless times. Inexcusably sloppy.
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Much Ado About Nothing.......2006-11-25
In The Nothingness Beyond God, Robert Carter, from a Western perspective and using a comparative approach, provides a detailed exposition and analysis of the philosophy of Nishida Kitaro, a major Japanese philosopher of the last century. This book represents a significant introduction of Nishida's philosophy to the West, and is considered to be preeminent in the field.
Carter pursues the central theme of 'nothingness' by elaborating on a number of Nishida's major concepts, including `pure experience,' the `logic of Basho' (place), `self-contradictory identity,' `action intuition,' and the relationship between religion, morality, values, ethics, and feeling.
While extremely important, Nishida's works does tend to be rather difficult. Since this particular book is an academic publication intended primarily for an academic audience, it should come as no surprise that some of the material can be challenging. Nevertheless, while expounding a most difficult subject, the book remains highly readable and is full of compelling insights into the Oriental perspective in general, and Japanese philosophy in particular, insights that are accessible to virtually anyone willing to put forth some effort.
As a long-time student of Oriental philosophy, I whole-heartedly recommend Carter's book to those with a similar interest. This is a powerful book which is well written and likely to make a significant contribution to the reader's appreciation of Eastern culture.
good and bad.......2005-02-09
For myself, this was a very interesting and informative book. Carter attempts to lay out the philosopy of Nishida Kitaro in a graspable fashion... no easy task... I must say, however, that I was only able to slog through this book because of my own interest in the subject... Carter could have seriously used a good editor, although I expect it must have been difficult to find an editor who was sufficiently ruthless and at the same time sensitive to the difficulty of what Carter was trying to do, let alone wrap his or her brain around the subject... a more closely edited version of this book could have been great... as it is, the stark contrast between the quality and clarity of Thomas Kasulis' forward and the body of the book reflects poorly on Carter.
As I said, however, the book's got a lot of good stuff to offer, and stuff that I have not been able to find elswhere (although I have yet to read the several more English language books on Kitaro that have come out since this)... It has a lot of good stuff to offer IF you can get to it...
The book does, however, have one unexcusable flaw: Chapter Seven. In chapter seven, Carter suddenly shifts from abstract-to-the-the-point-of-being-incomprehensible to "concrete", by relating his discussion to an idealized "Japanese" world in a way that is as... er... bizzare... as it is fanciful. He seems wrapped up in a weird picture-postcard view of "the Japanese" (a term he beats utterly to death) that, for me, utterly undermined the authority of his arguments. By the time he quoted James Clavell's "Shogun" (albiet in a footnote) to illustrate the importance of non-intellectuallized "pure experience" to "the Japanese", I was ready to throw this book in the trash. I didn't, however, and got a lot of good food for thought, or rather, perspectives on thought and non-thought, from it.
Something to Say About Nothing.......2001-06-20
Carter's "The Nothingness Beyond God" is a beacon that opens up for discovery new possibilities of a meaningful dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophical traditions. Dedicating a chapter to each developmental stage, the book clearly illuminates the evolution of the philosophy of Nishida Kitar . Initiating the inquiry with the concept of pure experience, Carter deftly, yet with eloquent brevity, extricates the essential elements of Nishidan thought from a complex of the philosopher's writings. Carter demonstrates how Nishida never lost sight of his founding concept, pure experience, while he continued to tender increasingly more elucidated refinements that saw the genesis of the Logic of Basho and the concept of Self-Contradictory Identity. The refinement eventually produced a philosophical stance which he called The Dialectical World of "Acting Intuition", and of which this edition offers a substantially expanded exegesis. But Carter does not rest here, he suggests that issues of religion, morality and ethics, in short of value in general, can be, and indeed must be, tied to an understanding of the essential unfolding of the individual, without which, these concepts, lacking a form for expression, would be essentially empty.. In other words, what Carter sees as groundbreaking in Nishida is an insight that offers an ontology that can participate in the resolution of contemporary world issues. Ecology and environmental issues now become deep issues that are inseparable from our own well being. In what has clearly secured itself as a masterpiece of comparative philosophy, its contemporary relevance has additionally advanced the endeavour to bridge the gap between East and West. Yet, one of the more salient features of "The Nothingness Beyond God" is its range of accessibility. It is equally stimulating for the neophyte as well as the seasoned comparativist, in that its accessibility does not come at the expense of scholarly exactness. Well done.
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In recent years several books by major figures in Japan's modern philosophical tradition have appeared in English, exciting readers by their explorations of the borderlands between philosophy and religion. What has been wanting, however, is a book in a Western language to elucidate the life and thought of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), Japan's first philosopher of world stature and the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani Keiji, whose lifetime coincides with the rise and flowering of the Kyoto School and whose own critical contribution to Japanese thought has been so important.
Nishida Kitaro is a translation of essays Nishitani wrote about his teacher from 1936 to 1968 and published as a book in 1985. This series of meditations by one master on another provides a remarkable, living portrait of Nishida the person and conveys the enthusiasm he aroused in his students. Examining Nishida's most important work, An Inquiry into the Good, Nishitani penetrates to the core of his thought and presents it in language that is a marvel of clarity.
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A Buddhist-Christian Logic of the Heart: Nishida's Kyoto School and Lonergan's Spiritual Genome as World Bridge
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Your reaction might have been something like this: "Hurrah! I'm pregnant! What? TWINS?!" Being pregnant with two (or more!) is different from being pregnant with one, and The Multiple Pregnancy Sourcebook tells it like it is, from weight gain to proper preparation for bringing your duplicate (or triplicate) bundles of joy home from the hospital. Author Nancy Bowers couldn't be more qualified to write such a book: not only is she a nurse and teacher of birth classes, she is also the mother of her own set of twins.
This book covers the same material as any pregnancy guide, and in approximately the same order. Starting with proper nutrition and continuing through the standard routines of visits and testing, it finishes up with the actual labor, postnatal care, and a walk-through of those first few days at home. Because all this information is aimed specifically at multiple pregnancies, you'll also find information about subjects like selective reduction, bed rest, and the chances of having at least one baby delivered by cesarean section. Through it all, Bowers's wise and experienced tone manages to soothe while educating. Bowers emphasizes that "multiple pregnancy is demanding work, but the rewards are matchless." She frequently encourages parents to seek out support, whether through a parenting group or a counselor, and provides an excellent guide at the end of the book that offers contact information for all sorts of potential help.
Destined to become a classic for parents of multiples, this sourcebook is one you'll want to keep handy throughout your pregnancy and beyond. --Jill Lightner
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In the past 10 years the number of twin births has risen 52 percent and the number of higher-order multiples has increased more than 400 percent! Written by a perinatal nurse specializing in multiple birth education, The Multiple Pregnancy Sourcebook explores the physical, financial, and emotional challenges of this high-risk condition. Included is an extensive list of support resources.
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Only useful for the 1st time mother.......2004-03-24
I have no doubt that this book is great for the first time mother, but for someone who has had a child previously, there was not a lot of new information. There is a lot of good basic pregnancy information here, but much of the multiple pregnancy info could be concluded from singleton pregnancy books and good common sense. I wanted specific information on what I could do to prevent pre-term labor, how much to eat and what, and my limitations. This book did not enlighten me very much at all.
Great book. Right on target........2004-03-23
When I was pregnant with my twins, I was looking for a book that was very factual. I wanted the facts, I wanted the numbers, and I wanted it in a straight way. This book does just that. It's no sugar-coated description of a multiple pregnancy and its possible risks. I would greatly recommended to all expecting multiples.
However, as much as I thought I was prepared, I really wasn't. My twins came 2 months earlier and spent 6 weeks in the NICU. I kept referring to the book as the babies were resting in the hospital. They are now happy and healthy and very active 19 month olds! Good luck!
Good Overall Intro. to Multiples.......2004-01-30
The complications with a multiple birth can hardly be tackled in-depth in any one volume, but this book does a great job balancing common-sense medical wisdos and spelling out the innumerable risks to mother and babies. Your OB-GYN can point you to another book that deals with your specific medical problems. As a present for being stuck in bed-rest,I gave my wife: "I SLEEP AT RED LIGHTS: A TRUE STORY OF LIFE AFTER TRIPLETS," by Bruce Stockler, and she loved it. The funniest and most hopeful book about the troubles of multiples and parenting in general. Good luck to all mutiples parents!
A MUST READ!.......2004-01-10
I discovered this book about halfway through my pregnancy and was so disappointed not to have found it sooner! It is by far the best twin pregnancy book I have read. A twin pregnancy is such a unique experience and after reading a general pregnancy book or two, you find yourself with lots of questions left unanswered. I kept asking myself, "But how will this be different for me?" Nancy Bowers has the answers. This book is well-organized, well-researched, and covers all aspects of multiple pregnancy in an honest, forth-right manner. Part III "The Joys and Challenges of Being High Risk" can be a bit overwhelming. Here, Bowers reviews the possible problems that can arise during a multiple pregnancy, however she is not alarmist about it. Rather she frequently points out that statistically most of the problems seldom occur. I found it informative and was glad to have the risks spelled out; others might find it somewhat frightening if not kept in perspective --most multiple pregnancies/births are normal and healthy. I'm now 33 weeks pregnant with my twins and reference this book all the time. I had my husband read it and he found it an informative, easy read. We are about to be first time parents and welcome all the info we can get on this very unique experience. Truly a must read for all parents expecting multiples!
Get this book!.......2003-05-13
I bought this book the day after I found out I was having twins and didn't put it down my entire pregnancy. This is a wonderful book. It's written with the unique joys and trials of a multiple pregnancy spelled out clearly. The author is factual and friendly without being preachy like some other pregnancy books I read. It covers both the emotional and physical aspects of a multiple pregnancy and does a great job of preparing the reader for labor and birth(s).
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Hundreds of delicious recipes from meats, salads, soups, cereals, pastas, sauces, beverages, jams, breads, wines and desserts are combined with sound commentaries offering advice and inspirational reflections offering guidance to provide the perfect blend of nourishment for mind and spirit.
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Food for the body and the soul from the 12th century!.......2001-01-01
Saint Hildegard lived in the 12th century. She was an abbess, a mystic, and eventually, a saint. Among the considerable writings she left are her thoughts and opinions on the spiritual as well as physical values of various foodstuffs. This rather unusual cookbook derives its recipes from these theological and visionary musings, although a few are directly from the saint herself. This is not a meat and potatoes diet at all, but surprisingly well-balanced, considering the limitations of medieval fare. There is an emphasis on greens and grains, especially that health food junkie's delight, spelt, a decidedly acquired taste. Dishes vary from the simple, using only a few ingredients to the much more complicated, requiring a very well stocked pantry. A few ingredients will be unfamiliar to most 21st century cooks in the Midwest. I doubt that many folks regularly cook with nettles, something we generally consider a weed these days, but St. Hildegard makes a omelet of them,praising their purgative, restorative, and stimulative virtues. While this slim volume may prove more for reading, than cooking, Chicken Cooked in Wine for the Heart and the Tunisian Ratatouille are quite delicious.
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