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Keiji Nishitani (西谷 啓治 Nishitani Keiji February 27 1900 – November 24 1990) was a Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Kitaro Nishida. In 1924 Nishitani received a Ph.D. from Kyoto University for his dissertation Das Ideale und das Reale bei Schelling und Bergson. He studied under Martin Heidegger in Freiburg from 1937-9.He held the principal Chair of Philosophy and Religion at Kyoto University from 1943 until becoming Emeritus in 1964.