Keiji Nishitani

Keiji Nishitani
西谷 啓治
Born(1900-02-27)February 27, 1900
DiedNovember 24, 1990(1990-11-24) (aged 90)
Nationality Japanese
Alma materKyoto Imperial University
Notable workReligion and Nothingness
EraContemporary philosophy
Region
SchoolKyoto School
InstitutionsKyoto Imperial University
Main interests
Philosophy of religion, nihilism, nothingness, emptiness, mysticism
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Keiji Nishitani (西谷 啓治, Nishitani Keiji, February 27, 1900 – November 24, 1990) was a Japanese philosopher. He was a scholar of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Kitarō Nishida. In 1924, Nishitani received his doctorate from Kyoto Imperial University for his dissertation "Das Ideale und das Reale bei Schelling und Bergson". He studied under Martin Heidegger in Freiburg from 1937 to 1939.