Keiji Nishitani

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Keiji Nishitani
西谷 啓治
Born	(1900-02-27)February 27, 1900 Ishikawa, Japan
Died	November 24, 1990(1990-11-24) (aged 90) Kyoto, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Kyoto Imperial University
Notable work	Religion and Nothingness
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Japanese philosophy Buddhist philosophy
School	Kyoto School
Institutions	Kyoto Imperial University
Main interests	Philosophy of religion, nihilism, nothingness, emptiness, mysticism

Keiji Nishitani (西谷 啓治, Nishitani Keiji, February 27, 1900 – November 24, 1990) was a Japanese philosopher. He was a scholar of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Kitarō Nishida. In 1924, Nishitani received his doctorate from Kyoto Imperial University for his dissertation "Das Ideale und das Reale bei Schelling und Bergson". He studied under Martin Heidegger in Freiburg from 1937 to 1939.