Keiji's Nishitani's 'The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism' with Joseph Turner

Joseph Turner is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in the dialogue between continental and Japanese philosophical traditions. His dissertation explores the development of a political ontology that bridges Nishitani Keiji's concept of emptiness with Jean-Luc Nancy's shared ontology of "being-with."He holds an MA in Literary Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has published on Jean Baudrillard's work. Joseph has presented at numerous academic conferences on philosophers, including Baudrillard, Giorgio Agamben, Nishitani Keiji, and Jean-Luc Nancy. His research contributes to cross-cultural philosophical dialogue and offers new perspectives on political ontology that transcend frameworks of predetermined political antagonisms. Based in Madison, philosophicalWisconsin, Joseph works at the intersection of Eastern and Western hilosophical traditions, bringing attention to underexplored thinkers and fostering promising theoretical frameworks. In this episode we discuss Keiji Nishitani's book The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism---Become part of the Hermitix community:The Hermitage: the-hermitage.mn.coHermitix Twitter - ⁠ / hermitixpodcast ⁠Support Hermitix:Patreon - ⁠ www.patreon.com/hermitix ⁠Donations: - ⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠