Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1(14)
Notes 15(4)

Emptiness and Christianity 19(16)

Emptiness within Christianity 19(5)

Return to Emptiness 24(7)

Notes 31(4)

The School of Things (Mono-ha) and its Criticism of Modernity 35(24)

The Emergence of the School of Things and Space Design 36(4)

The School of Things and Anti-Semiotics 40(3)

The School of Things and Nothingness 43(10)

Notes 53(6)

Nothingness, Shintai and Christian Theology 59(30)

Kitaro Nishida's Philosophy of Nothingness 59(7)

Nothingness and Shintai 66(6)

Nothingness and Christian Theology 72(8)

Notes 80(9)

Emptiness and the Cross 89(38)

Emptiness and the Demise of Symbols 89(7)

The Cross between Romanticism and Barbarism 96(5)

Emptiness filled with Situational Appearance 101(11)

Metaphysical Light and Phenomenal Light 112(3)

Dark, Light and Gold 115(4)

Notes 119(8)

Emptiness, the Cross and Shintai 127(32)

Shintai and Corporeality of Architectural Elements 127(3)

Body Attuned 130(6)

The Penetrating Light and the Cross in Efficacy 136(6)

Seeing in Emptiness 142(1)

Beyond Solitude 143(4)

The Sublime 147(5)

Notes 152(7)

Conclusion 159(46)

Notes 170(3)

Appendix

Interview with Tadao Ando 173(32)
Index 205(6)
Image credits 211