Yoshihiro Nitta

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Yoshihiro Nitta
Yoshiriro Nitta. Signature 1994

Yoshihiro Nitta ( Japanese 新 田 義 弘 , Nitta Yoshihiro ; born January 21, 1929 in Ishikawa Prefecture ; † March 15, 2020 ) was a Japanese philosopher .

Life

Yoshihiro Nitta studied philosophy from 1949 to 1957 at Tōhoku University in Sendai ( Japan ). 1969–1970 he was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Husserl Archive at the University of Cologne and in 1992 at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . From 1970 until his retirement in 1999 he taught as a full professor of philosophy at Tōyō University in Tokyo . He was chairman of the Japanese "Research Society for Phenomenology and Hermeneutics " and President of the "Japanese Research Society for Phenomenology and Social Science ".

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Yoshihiro Nitta, the "doyen of the phenomenology of Japan" (Helmuth Vetter), is a student of Goichi Miyake, who taught at Sendai University. In his philosophical-scientific work, Nitta orientates himself not only on Edmund Husserl but also mainly on the other two main representatives of Freiburg phenomenology, Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink . Already with his first larger book What is Phenomenology? , in which he deals with the entire field of Husserl's late philosophy, Nitta made Japanese readers aware of the problem content of Freiburg phenomenology and thus awakened a broad interest in the current questions of phenomenological philosophy in Japan - an interest that continues to this day continues unbroken.

In later publications Nitta tries to deepen the question of the interlinking of phenomenology and hermeneutics against the background of an analysis of radical self-change that phenomenological thinking holds in store and in this way to pave the way to a “phenomenology of mediality”. One result of this research program is his book World and Life from 2001.

Publications (selection)

  • What is Phenomenology (Japanese), Tokyo 1968.
  • Phenomenology (Japanese), Tokyo 1978.
  • Japanese Phenomenology , ed. With H. Tatematsu, Analecta Husserliana Volume 8. Dortrecht 1979
  • Mitredsg .: Phenomenology , 4 volumes (Japanese). Tokyo 1980
  • Phenomenology of Others , Ed. With M. Uno (Japanese) Tokyo 1982
  • Ed .: Japanese contributions to phenomenology , Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1984
  • The way to a phenomenology of the inconspicuous , in: To the philosophical topicality of Heidegger, Vol. II: In the conversation of the time, ed. by Dietrich Papenfuß and Otto Pöggeler , Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1990.
  • The anonymous medium in the constitution of multidimensional knowledge , in: Phenomenologische Forschungen, Vol. 24/25, ed. by EW Orth, Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1991. ISBN 3-495-47725-X
  • From 1993, together with Kah Kyung Cho and Hans Rainer Sepp, editor of the international series> Orbis Phaenomenologicus <. Until 2001 with Alber, Freiburg / Munich (8 volumes), since 2002 with Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg.
  • About the self-differentiation of life. Phenomenology of non-objectivity in Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945) , in: Facets of Truth. Festschrift for Meinolf Wewel , ed. by Ernesto Garzón Valdés and Ruth Zimmerling, Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1995. ISBN 3-495-47820-5
  • Phenomenology and Modern Philosophy (Japanese), Tokyo 1995
  • Modern Philosophy - Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (Japanese), Tokyo 1997, 2nd edition 2006
  • World and life. On the phenomenology of mediumship (Japanese), Tokyo 2001
  • The end of the world and the role of man as a medium , in: Eugen Fink . Social Philosophy - Anthropology - Cosmology - Pedagogy - Methodology , ed. by A. Böhmer (Series: Orbis Phaenomenologicus - Perspektiven. New Series Volume 12) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006. ISBN 3-8260-3216-0
  • Edited with Toru Tani: Admission and Response. Phenomenology in Japan I. (Series: Orbis Phaenomenologicus - Perspektiven. New Part 23) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-8260-3895-2

Festschrift

  • Phenomenology of mediumship . Commemorative publication for Yoshihiro Nitta's 70th birthday. Edited by H. Kawamoto, Y. Sato and I.Yamaguchi (Japanese) Tokyo 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Nitta, Yoshihiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 新 田 義 弘 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ishikawa
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2020