Keiji Nishitani - Religion and Nothingness - week 4
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Keiji Nishitani — Religion and Nothingness
Wed 4 Nov
Chapter 1 / section V - Nishitani x Sartre
Pages for this week: section V of ch.1 is where Nishitani responds to Sartre's famous & influential 1946 lecture Existentialism is a Humanism - so let's read & discuss both of them. The Sartre is easy to find online (eg. here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm) - best to take a look at that first, and then read the corresponding section in the Nishitani.
If we have time, we can round off the rest of chapter 1 tonight too - if not we'll resume next week.
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