The Philosophy of No-Mind: Experience Without Self

＂Translated into English for the first time, leading Japanese philosopher, Nishihira Tadashi, explores the deeply experiential philosophy of losing yourself in the reality of the present. He takes us on a tour through the history of Zen, the gatekeeper of the philosophy of no-mind D.T. Suzuki, the Noh theory of Zeami and Takuan’s treatise on swordsmanship. Nishihira pulls together the threads of this genealogy of no-mind, showing the richness of the concept and its essential connection to the paradoxical task of becoming fully human＂--

Nishihira Tadashi is a Japanese philosopher of education who holds the chair of education in Kyoto University, Japan. He has authored books (in Japanese) on The Philosophy and Psychology of E.H. Erikson (1993), The Spiritual Lifecycle in the Works of Jung, Wilber, and Steiner (1997), Philosophical Investigations into Zeami’s Teaching of Exercise and Expertise (2009); Mysteries of Death and Birth in Childhood (2015), Lifecycle Philosophy (2019); The Wisdom of Keiko: Practice and Exercise (2019), among others. He also translated several of E.H. Erikson’s works into Japanese.

Anton Sevilla-Liu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kyushu University, Japan. He is the author of Watsuji Tetsurô’s Global Ethics of Emptiness: A Contemporary Look at a Modern Japanese Philosopher (2017) and the translator of Sueki Fumihiko’s Religion and Ethics at Odds: A Buddhist Counter-Position (2016). He is also one of the editors of the Journal of Japanese Philosophy.

Catherine Sevilla-Liu is a translator and artist based in Kyushu, Japan.