Brian Daizen Victoria

German philosophy in pre-World-War-II Japan

3 Comments / Philosophy, Politics, Religion /

In Western nations, there is a clear connection between philosophy and totalitarian politics in the 20th century. Hegel’s philosophy, for example, took a “left” turn in Marx’s thinking — which Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin drew upon — and it took a “right” turn in Treitschke’s and Nietzsche’s thinking — which Goebbels, Hitler, and the National […]

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Warby reviews Nietzsche and the Nazis

5 Comments / History, Philosophy, Religion /

Australia’s Lorenzo Warby’s review of my Nietzsche and the Nazis. Intriguing sideways connection to Heidegger and militarism: Warby also reviews Brian Daizen Victoria’s Zen at War, “a study of how Zen Buddhism became deeply complicit in Japanese militarism,” just as Heidegger’s mystically-charged writings became complicit in German militarism. Warby there points to this piece by

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