Takeshi Morisato

Kenosis and Its Power

Theology

“The only way to mitigate the epistemic gap between continental European and Japanese philosophy is for each of them to exercise a transformative self-negation in its mediatory relation to the other. To borrow the Kyoto School’s insight, this means for a thinker to embody the practical notion of kenosis or for a community of such thinkers to engage in an act of intellectual conversion (namely, metanoesis). By successfully showcasing various formulations of this transformative self-emptiness from both perspectives, Nakamura has made a tremendous contribution to the field of continental and Japanese philosophy. Kenosis and Its Power is signaling a powerful way forward for comparative and continental philosophers.”