In his later work, Foucault shows how in Hellenistic and Roman culture immanent values were shaped through self-care, thereby bringing to the attention a compelling alternative to the dependence on transcendent values that we have grown accustomed to through centuries of Christianity. He is also famed among students of the Japanese and Chinese languages for his Remembering the Kanji and Remembering the Hanzi series.This master's thesis sets out to compare the thought of the Japanese Kyoto School philosopher Tanabe Hajime (1889-1962) with that of the French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault (1926-1984), particularly on the topic of self-care and the possibility of personal transformation.
Heisig still resides in Nagoya, where he continues to conduct research at the "Japanese Philosophy Reference Materials" at the Nanzan Institute, publishes a number of books and travels around the world to give his lectures on philosophy and religion. In 2015, Heisig received an honorary doctoral degree from Tallinn University in Estonia. He served as the director of the Nanzan Institute from 1991 to 2001 following in the footsteps of the former director and Belgian philosopher, Jan Van Bragt. In September 1978, he moved to Japan (first in Nagano and then to the city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture) and thereby became a Permanent Research Fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture at Nanzan University. Between 19, he was a visiting lecturer at Catholic Theological Union, Instituto Superior de Estudios Eclesiásticos (Mexico City) and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia). After receiving a PhD in Religious studies at Cambridge University in 1973, he went back to Divine Word College to teach philosophy and religion as a lecturer. Then he received his master's degree in philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and another master's degree in Notre Dame University at the same time in 1969. He served as a lecturer at the Divine Word College (Epworth, Iowa) as a BA student and graduated with a BA degree in Philosophy from the same college in 1966. His books, translations, and edited collections, which have appeared in 18 languages, currently number 90 volumes. He has published a number of books on topics ranging from the notion of God in analytical psychology, the Kyoto School of Philosophy (including the works of Nishida Kitaro and Tanabe Hajime) to contemporary inter-religious dialogue. James Wallace Heisig (born 1944) is a philosopher who specialises in the field of philosophy of religion.
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