Much Ado About Nothingness by James W. Heisig

6th edition: (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011 3rd printing, 2015).Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters (Tokyo: Japan Publications Trading Co., 1985 5th ed.by 渡辺学 Watanabe Manabu and 纐纈康兵 Kōketsu Kōhei. Jung's psychology of religion (London and Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1979, 1983). Adventures in Kanji-Land (Nagoya, Nanzan University, 1977).(Buenos Aires: Editorial Guadalupe, 1976).

El cuento detrás del cuento: un ensayo sobre psique y mito.

He is also famed among students of the Japanese and Chinese languages for his Remembering the Kanji and Remembering the Hanzi series.īibliography Books (author) Heisig still resides in Nagoya, where he continues to conduct research at the 'Japanese Philosophy Reference Materials' at the Nanzan Institute, publishes a number of books and travels around the world to give his lectures on philosophy and religion. In 2015, Heisig received an honorary doctoral degree from Tallinn University in Estonia. He served as the director of the Nanzan Institute from 1991 to 2001 following in the footsteps of the former director and Belgian philosopher, Jan Van Bragt. In September 1978, he moved to Japan (first in Nagano and then to the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture) and thereby became a Permanent Research Fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture at Nanzan University. Between 19, he was a visiting lecturer at Catholic Theological Union, Instituto Superior de Estudios Eclesiásticos (Mexico City) and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). After receiving a PhD in Religious studies at Cambridge University in 1973, he went back to Divine Word College to teach philosophy and religion as a lecturer. Then he received his master's degree in philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and another master's degree in Notre Dame University at the same time in 1969. He served as a lecturer at the Divine Word College (Epworth, Iowa) as a BA student and graduated with a BA degree in Philosophy from the same college in 1966. His books, translations, and edited collections, which have appeared in 18 languages, currently number 90 volumes.

He has published a number of books on topics ranging from the notion of God in analytical psychology, the Kyoto School of Philosophy (including the works of Nishida Kitaro and Tanabe Hajime) to contemporary inter-religious dialogue. James Wallace Heisig (born 1944) is a philosopher who specialises in the field of philosophy of religion.

Much Ado About Nothingness by James W. Heisig