On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 took place a Raimon Panikkar Fund Readings, with the title “Nothingness as a twist and limit of modernity. A dialogue between Heidegger and the Kyoto School”, by Rebeca Maldonado, PhD and Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Specialized in metaphysics and ontology in the research line of “Nothingness as twist and limit of modernity”, with several essays, reading Heidegger’s posthumous texts, as well as Kant and Nietzsche, and at the same time the Japanese philosophers of the Kyoto School, two of them, Keiji Nishitani and Hajime Tabane, Heidegger’s students. He has translated one of the fundamental texts of this school, Tanabe’s “Philosophy as Methanoethics”, and participates in various journals, seminars and organizations in this imperative East-West philosophical dialogue.

Raimon Panikkar was one of the first in this country to give news of an unknown Kyoto School. He knew and dealt with Heidegger, and in the Fund of the Library-UdG we find, among many other things, books dedicated to Heidegger, and an important presence of texts of the Kyoto School, with some dedications by Nishitani.

In Panikkar’s work there is a constant dialogue with Eckhart, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Tanabe, Nishitani from the perspective of the disconcerting, at the same time stimulating and creative encounter between Buddhist emptiness and Western nihilism.

The event took place in the Aula Aurora Bertrana of the Library of the Barri Vell of the University of Girona. Here you can see the video of the sesion.