Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Chapter Summaries
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction
1. An orientation concerning “Japanese” philosophy” (tetsugaku)
1.1 Proximity and distance in hermeneutics
2. Two ways of “defining” Japanese philosophy
2.1 Revisiting Nakae Chomin’s statement
2.2 A view of “philosophy” as a Western import
3. Nishida Kitaro’s view of philosophy as an indigenous cultural activity
3.1 Japanese philosophy, French philosophy, German philosophy . . .
3.2 Cultural experience and philosophical formulation, or logic
3.3 Eastern and Western “accents” in logic
3.4 Theism, non-theism, worldview, and philosophy
3.5 Cultural boundaries can be transcended
3.6 Cultural and intercultural sensitivity
3.7 Cultural “terroir”
3.8 A “semiotics” of “semi” (cicadas)
3.9 Universality of a culture as the “public” property
3.10 Philosophy as authentic praxis
4. Concluding remarks
4.1 Language, philosophy, and translation
4.2 Notes on the original textual sources
Notes
Part One Making of Modern Japanese Philosophy:
Chapter One Phenomenology in Japan: Its Inception and Blossoming
1. The First Generation: The Introduction of Phenomenology to Japan
1.1 Takahashi Satomi (1886–1964) and the introduction of Husserl
1.2 Miyake Goichi (1895–1982) and the introduction of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty
2. The Second Generation: The Burgeoning of Phenomenology in Japan
2.1 Human existence as corporeal and the discovery of Merleau-Ponty
2.2 Kida Gen: The radical spirit of social and philosophical critique
2.3 Nitta Yoshihiro and Kida Gen: Philosophies of rudimentary nature
2.4 Tatematsu Hirotaka: Translations of Husserl’s writings
3. The Third Generation: The Transformation of Phenomenology
3.1 Washida Kiyokazu’s phenomenology of care and Murata Jun’ichi’s phenomenology of technology
3.2 Noe Keiichi’s phenomenology of history as narration
By Way of Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Part Two Social and Political Themes
Chapter Two Confucianism in Modern Japan
Introduction
1. Tokugawa Confucianism
2. The Nishogakusha and Modern Confucianism—Mishima Chushu and the doctrine of the unification of morality and profit
3. Japanese Capitalism and Confucianism—Shibusawa Eiichi
4. Inoue Tetsujiro and Modern Yomeigaku
5. Hattori Unokichi and Koshikyo (“Confucius’s Teaching”)
6. Taiwan and Japanese Confucianism
7. Nakae Chomin and “Red Yomeigaku”
8. The Osaka Yomei Gakkai and the “Civil Foundation”
9. Religious Yomeigaku
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Chapter Three The Political Thought ofthe Kyoto School: Beyond“Questionable Footnotes”and “Japanese- StyleFascism”
Introduction
1. A Sketch of the Past Seven Decades Inacademia in Japan and Abroad
2. The Kyoto School as Political Thoughtthen and Now: Back to Tosaka’s “Philosophyof The Kyoto School”
3. The Art of Writing Under Wartimepersecution: The Two- Edged Sort of Anti- Systemic Collaboration
4. Opening Up by Way of Conclusion: Realizing the Intellectual Potential of Kyoto School Political Thought
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Chapter Four Metanoetics for the Deadand the Living: Tanabe Hajime, Karaki Junzō, and Moritaki Ichirō on the Nuclear Age
1. Tanabe Hajime (1885–1962): Fromthe “Logic of Social Existence” To “Philosophy of Death”
1.1 Philosophy as Metanoetics
1.2 Philosophy of death
1.3 Existential collaboration with the dead
1.4 The nuclear age as the age of death
1.5 Dialectics of death
2. Karaki Junzō (1904–80): Socialresponsibilities of Scientists
3. Uehara Senroku (1899–1975): Joint struggles With the Dead
4. Moritaki Ichirō (1901–94): “Steps Toward The Absolute Negation of Nuclear Power”
4.1 In the wake of the Kyoto School: Traces of Nishida and Tanabe
4.2 Postwar turn: The public mind and a “culture of compassion”
4.3 “Peaceful Use”: Struggle with the magical power of words
4.4 Looking for theories to oppose nuclear power
4.5 Galileo Galilei’s lament in the nuclear age
In Place of a Conclusion—“Things That are Near Yet Far: Things That are Far Yet Near”
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Chapter Five In the Wake of 3.11 Earthquake: Philosophy of Disaster and Pilgrimage
Introduction
1. Philosophy of Disaster
2. Philosophical Reflection on 3.11
3. A Visit to the Disaster-Stricken Areas
4. Toward Constructing A Philosophy of Pilgrimage
5. Constructing Post- 3.11 Literature and Philosophy
Concluding Remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Part Three Aesthetics
Chapter Six The Aesthetics of Tradition: Making the Past Present
1. Medieval Aesthetics of Yugen
2. The Twentieth-Century Creation (or Invention) of “Traditional Aesthetics”
3. The Buddhist Notions of Nothingness and Impermanence Adopted as Modern Aesthetic Terms
4. A Philosophical Interpretation of Impermanence (Mujō): Kobayashi Hideo
5. Emptiness (Śūnyatā) According to Nishitani Keiji
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Chapter Seven Bodily Present Activity in History: An Artistic Streak in Nishida Kitarō’s Thought
Introduction: the Central Relevanceof Art in Nishida’s Thought
1. “Above The Saddle No Rider, Underthe Saddle No Horse”
2. Castiglione: the Grace of the Courtier
3. An Inquiry Into the Good and Art
4. “Sesshū Painted Nature or Nature painted Itself Through Sesshū”
5. From Pure Experience to the Structure of Self-Consciousness
6. The Body-Mind Unity in the Artisticcreation
7. Beings in the Environment: Locatedness of Being
8. Global Culture and the Formation of Historic World
Conclusion
Notes
Bibligraphy
Further Reading
Chapter Eight In Search of an Aesthetics of Emptiness: Two European Thinkers
Introduction: Japanese Philosophy Indialogue
1. An Aesthetics of Emptiness
2. An Apophatic Aesthetics
3. Reflections
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Part Four Some Prominent Twentieth-Century Thinkers
Chapter Nine Watsuji Tetsuro: Accidental Buddhist?
Introduction
1. Early Life
2. The War and Its Aftermath
3. Major Works
3.1 Shamon Dogen
3.2 Fudo
3.3 Rinrigaku, Volume One
Conclusion: The Accidental BUddhist?
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Chapter Ten Encounter in Emptiness: The I-Thou Relationin Nishitani Keiji’s Philosophy of Zen
1. The Two Fold Self and Its Encounter with Others
2. The Religious Background, or Field, of the I-Thou Relation
3. A Dharma Battle Between Masters of absolute Subjectivity
4. Separate Mountain Peaks Greeting One Another
5. The Mutual Exchange of Host and Guest
6. Whence and Whither Kyōsan’s Laughter: The Locationless Location
7. Mutual Circulation: Harmony of Compassionate Love and Competitive Play
8. Afterword: Something Thoroughly Hidden, Requiring a Twofold Love
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Chapter Eleven Creative Imagination, Sensus Communis, and the Social Imaginary: Miki Kiyoshi and Nakamura Yūjirō in Dialogue with Contemporary Western Philosophy
Introduction
1. From the Productive Imagination to the Social Imaginary In Western philosophy
2. The Imagination In Japanese Philosophy: Miki Kiyoshi
3. Common Sense and the Imagination in Japanese Philosophy: Nakamura Yūjirō
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Chapter Twelve Nishida Kitarō as a Philosopher of Science
Introduction
1. Nishida’s Early View of Science
2. The Rise of Philosophy of science In Europe
3. Later Nishida’s Key Philosophical Concepts
4. Intuitionism and the Foundation of Mathematics
5. Operationism of Modern Physics
6. Organism in Biology
7. Nishida’s Position Concerning Modern Philosophy of Science
Conclusion
Notes
References
Further Reading
Part Five Philosophical Dialogue on Gender and Life
Chapter Thirteen Japanese and Western Feminist Philosophies: A Dialogue
Introduction
1. Nondualism and Gender
2. Intimacy and the Feminine
3. Female Subjectivity
4. Yosano Akiko
5. Hiratsuka Raicho
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Further Reading
Appendix: Two Essays by Nishida Kitarō
1. “The Beauty of Calligraphy ”(Sho No Bi 書の美) (May 1930)
2. “On Japanese Short Poetry, Tanka” (Tanka Ni Tsuite 短歌について) (January 1933)
Notes
Timeline
Index: Japanese Texts Cited
Index: Names and Terms