The experience of thinking and thinking about experience: An encounter between Heidegger and Nishida

Abstract

Nishida is as much a reference for the Japanese-oriental philosophy of the twentieth century as Heidegger is a reference for the German-European philosophy. Based on these two philosophical perspectives, we suggest an encounter or a dialogue between the "experience of thinking" and "thinking about experience" to highlight, on one hand, the similarities and, on the other hand, the differences between Western and Eastern philosophy. We therefore first address the "basis of the experience of thinking" in both authors. Later, we take a deeper look at Heidegger's "thinking the event" and Nishida's "logic of the place" which are respectively called the "turn" and the "change" and then show the productive influence of both authors on the dialogue between Western and Eastern thought. Keywords: Heidegger, Nishida, dialogue, experience of thinking, thinking about experience, event, logic of the place, proximity.