About the Author

Nishitani Keiji is Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University. His collected writings currently number thirteen volumes, including Religion and Nothingness (1949; University of California Press, 1982). Yamamoto Seisaku is Professor of Philosophy at Kyoto University. James W. Heisig is a permanent fellow of the Nanzan Institute for Religon and Culture in Nagoya, Japan. D. S. Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.