Ontology of Production: Three Essays (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Agreeing with Marx that ontology is production and production is ontology, Nishida in these three essays—"Expressive Activity" (1925), "The Standpoint of Active Intuition" (1935), and "Human Being" (1938)—addresses sense and reason, language and thought, intuition and appropriation, ultimately arguing that in this concept of production, ideality and materiality are neither mutually exclusive nor oppositional but, rather, coimmanent. Nishida's forceful articulation of the radical nature of Marx's theory of production is, Haver contends, particularly timely in today's speculation-driven global economy. Nishida's reading of Marx, which points to the inseparability of immaterial intellectual labor and material manual labor, provokes a reconsideration of Marxism's utility for making sense of—and resisting—the logic of contemporary capitalism.

• Nishida Kitaro: The Man and his Thought (Studies in Japanese Philosophy) (Volume 2)
• The Logic of Nothingness: A Study of Nishida Kitaro (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture)
• Nishida Kitarō's Chiasmatic Chorology: Place of Dialectic, Dialectic of Place (World Philosophies)
• An Inquiry into the Good
• Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview
• Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays, Translated With an Introduction (Classic Reprint)
• Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture)
• The German Ideology, including Theses on Feuerbach (Great Books in Philosophy)
• Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (Radical Thinkers)