"Showing key connections between Marx's oeuvre and Buddhist thought, this book demonstrates connections between Marx and Nishida Kitaro, who many consider the key Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School of Philosophy, the first modern philosophers in Japan"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
  • Theory/Praxis as Negation of Messianic Political Theology
  • Mencius’ Niu Mountain as Eco-Communism
  • Pure Land as Always Already Interconnectedness
  • Enclosing the Land in the Meiji Restoration
  • Philosophers Have Only Interpreted the World, in Various Ways, the Point Is to Change It
  • U-Topos and the Pure Land
  • Origins of Pure Land Philosophy: Hōnen and Shinran
  • Notes
• Chapter 1: Buddhist Marxism: A Communist Hermeneutics
  • Buddhisms: Philosophies or Religions?
  • Buddha Was Not Born a “Buddhist” and Marx Was Not Born a “Marxist”
  • The Four Sights: Siddhartha Observes “Material Conditions” of Dukkha
  • Samsara
  • Four Stages of Life in Hinduism
  • Bodhisattva or Arhat: What Kind of “Buddha Body” Is the Oeuvre Left by Marx?
  • Eightfold Path and the Bodhisattva “Buddha Marx”
  • Not-Being: Heart, Diamond, and Lotus Sutras39
  • Marxist Threads Woven through Kyoto Philosophy
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: Samsara, Pervasion, and Conditioned Coproduction
  • Two Categories of Causation: Natural and Mechanical
  • Vedic Thought: The Metaphysics of Pervasion5
  • “Pratītyasamutpāda”—Conditioned Coproduction
  • Nishitani Keiji: The Great Doubt and the Great Death
  • Nishida’s Three Elements of Expressive Activity
  • Tosaka Jun—Shizen Tetsugaku Teki (Self-Nature-Philosophical-Process)
  • Mu! and Non-Consequentialism
  • Kenshō: The Kōan of Chao-Chou’s Dog
  • Zen No Kenkyu (An Inquiry into the Good/the Good Meditation, Thinking)
  • Nishida’s Human Being, 1938 (“Ningenteki Sonzai” or Human “Enemy, Point, Telos,” of Existence)
  • Nishida’s Contradictory Self-Identity (mujunteki jikodōitsu)
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: Dialectics: Ideology, Reproduction, and the Falling Rate of Profit
  • Ideology and Antoine de Stutt de Tracy (1754–1836)
  • Ideological superstructure
  • Culture Industry
  • Bourgeois Self-Enjoyment/Crude Communism
  • Alienation and Estrangement
  • They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
  • “They are doing it without knowing they are doing it”
  • Historical Materialism
  • Dialectical Materialism/Dialectic of Place
  • Simple Reproduction
  • Social Reproduction33
  • Falling Rate of Profit: Constant or Variable Capital
  • Automatic Factories and Zero-Work Utopias
  • Notes
• Chapter 3: What Is Communism?: Mu!
  • What Is Communism? Miki Kiyoshi’s “Kyōdōshughi” or Cooperativism
  • Utopia Rendered Actual: Communism as Positive Self-Consciousness
  • Utopia Rendered Actual: World​-Hist​orica​l-Emp​irica​lly-U​niver​sal-B​eing
  • Utopia Rendered Actual: Species-Being
  • From Communal by Nature to Social by Necessity
  • Modes of Production: Three Types of Production in the Grundrisse
  • Reification: Capital and the Objectification of Labor Power
  • Gliederung: Who Can Speak within Articulated Hierarchy
  • The World Market, an Intelligible World That Transcends Our Thinking
  • Vortex of Changing Forms and Matter in Circulation
  • Autonomy: The Limbs of the Social System Are Dislocated
  • Marx beyond the Commodity: Money, Circulation, and Land
  • Marx beyond Wage-Labor: The Automatic Factory
  • Marx beyond Kant: Conceptual to Formal and Real Subsumption
  • Marx beyond Hegel: Difference Not Dialectics?
  • Communism as Living Utopia
  • Notes
• Chapter 4: Kokka Minzoku (State Nation) ~ Minzoku Kokka (Nation State)
  • Owl of Minerva: Disintegrating Epoch of Now
  • Kokka Minzoku (State Nation) ~ Minzoku Kokka (Nation State)
  • Nishida’s Direction of Nothing, Visibility Is a Trap
  • Politics Is What Enters into the “Intelligible World”
  • State, Capital, Violence
  • Place, Dominion, and the State
  • Nishida: “The Nation Ought to Be the Mirror Image of the Pure Land in This World”29
  • Blut and Boden (“Blood and Soil”): The Fascist Ethos
  • Kenosis and the State
  • State Will as Alien Will
  • Notes
• Chapter 5: Nishida Kitarō and the Later Marx: Ground Rent, Utopia, and the Pure Land
  • Nishida Kitarō and the Later Marx
  • Zettai Mu: Absolute Nothing
  • Propertylessness of the Proletariat and Anti-Essentialism
  • Basho: the Place of Nothing
  • Neo-Liberalism
  • Necessity and Freedom, Delimited by Placelessness
  • Propertylessness in Marx, or Nishida’s Groundless ground
  • The “Territorializing” of Land
  • Care toward the Land
  • Utopia, Pure Land, and ground rent
  • Trinity Formula: Rent, Labor, and Money
  • Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Index