A Marxist philosopher who was trained at this university analyzed everydayness in terms of a dialectical logic of space in essays like “The Principle of Everydayness and Historical Time.” In From the Acting to the Seeing, a professor at this university wrote about a concrete situatedness that is prior to the subject-object distinction, a concept that he developed in essays like “The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview.” A philosopher who graduated from this university before studying under Heidegger theorized a “field of nihility” based on the notion of shūnyatā (“shoon-YAH-tah”). The concept of mu (“moo”) influenced philosophers from this university to write about “absolute nothingness,” a term coined by the author of An Inquiry into the Good. For 10 points, what university lends its name to a philosophical school that combined Western existentialism with Buddhism and was led by Kitarō Nishida? ■END■
ANSWER: Kyōto University [or Kyōto daigaku or Kyōdai; accept Kyōto Imperial University; accept Kyōto School or Kyōto-gakuha]
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