Ontology of Production

Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) was a Japanese philosopher, and the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He wrote extensively on Western philosophy and worked to link its concepts to Japanese philosophy. He was also a Marxist, and editor and translator WilliamHavor has selected these three essays for translation because they will be politically and philosophically useful for contemporary theorists. The essays in Ontology of Productionexamine philosophical issues concerning the concepts of poesis and praxis relevant to Marx's ideas of production.