"Bret W. Davis is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He attained a PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and has spent more than a dozen years in Japan, during which time he studied Buddhist thought at Otani University, completed the coursework for a second PhD in Japanese philosophy at Kyoto University, and trained as a lay practitioner at Sh?kokuji, a Rinzai Zen monastery in Kyoto. In addition to publishing more than sixty articles in English and in Japanese on various topics in Japanese, continental, and cross-cultural philosophy, he is the author of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (2007); editor of Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts (2014); and coeditor of Sekai no naka no Nihon no tetsugaku [Japanese philosophy in the world] (2005), Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (2011), and Engaging Dogen's Zen: The Philosophy of Practice as Awakening (2017). His translations from German and Japanese include Martin Heidegger's Country Path Conversations (2010), Dogen's ""Genjokoan: The Presencing of Truth"" (2009), and Ueda Shizuteru's ""Language in a Twofold World"" (2011). He serves on the editorial board of several journals and is coeditor of Indiana University Press's book series in World Philosophies."
this book will certainly prove to be one of the most valuable works of reference for years to come. * Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review * Bret Davis has produced a compelling conceptual framework for rethinking Japanese philosophy. This is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding Japanese philosophy in a broad historical and global philosophical context. * Takahiro Nakajima, University of Tokyo * Philosophy today should no longer privilege the type of thinking developed in the Western tradition, but rather should be understood as a cooperative intellectual quest to discover and develop unpredictable possibilities by crossing linguistic and cultural borders. This Handbook is a major contribution to that endeavor. * Mayuko Uehara, Kyoto University * An ambitious work * Steve G. Lofts, Philosophy East and West * For researchers and enthusiasts of Japanese philosophy, religious or otherwise, this book will certainly prove to be one of the most valuable works of reference for years to come. * Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, Religious Studies Review *