Many scholars contributed to the effort that led to this volume. The editors would like to thank Rachael Hutchinson, Jay Rubin, and Keith Vincent for contributing translations to this project. We would also like to thank Ayako Kano and Thomas LaMarre for their generous help in untangling many of the intellectual and linguistic puzzles that we encountered in Sōseki’s theories. Suggestions from two anonymous readers helped make this a better book. We wish to express our gratitude to Jennifer Crewe and her colleagues at Columbia University Press for their patience and support. Jay Rubin’s translation of “My Individualism” is reprinted here by kind permission of Monumenta Nipponica, the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, and the translator.
This book is the end product of a series of workshops and conferences organized by the editors over the course of several years. We would like to express our gratitude to all who participated in those events, in particular: Mark Anderson, Anna-Marie Farrier, Norman Holland, Iida Yūko, Karatani Kōjin, Komori Yōichi, Tom Looser, Masumitsu Keiko, Richard Okada, Dan O’Neill, Vincent Pecora, Atsuko Sakaki, Ann Sherif, and, finally, Brett de Bary, to whom we dedicate this volume.