The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy by Yusa, Michiko -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Contents List of Contributors 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 Chōmin’s statement 2.2 A view of “philosophy” as a Western import

3. Nishida Kitarō’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: : Phenomenology as a Case in Point 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 Gōichi (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 Nishōgakusha and Modern Confucianism—Mishima Chūshū and the doctrine of the unification of morality and profit 3. Japanese Capitalism and Confucianism—Shibusawa Eiichi 4. Inoue Tetsujirō and Modern Yōmeigaku 5. Hattori Unokichi and Kōshikyō (“Confucius’s Teaching”) 6. Taiwan and Japanese Confucianism 7. Nakae Chōmin and “Red Yōmeigaku” 8. The Osaka Yōmei Gakkai and the “Civil Foundation” 9. Religious Yōmeigaku Concluding Remarks Notes Bibliography Further Reading

Chapter Three The Political Thought of the Kyoto School: Beyond “Questionable Footnotes” and “Japanese-Style Fascism”

Introduction 1. A sketch of the past seven decades in academia in Japan and abroad 2. The Kyoto School as political thought then and now: Back to Tosaka’s “Philosophy of the Kyoto School” 3. The art of writing under wartime persecution: 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

Chapter Four Metanoetics for the Dead and the Living: Tanabe Hajime, Karaki Junzō, and Moritaki Ichirō on the Nuclear Age

1. Tanabe Hajime (1885–1962): From the “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): Social Responsibilities 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 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

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 yūgen 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 relevance of art in Nishida’s thought 1. “Above the saddle no rider, under the 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 artistic creation 7. Beings in the environment: locatedness of being 8. Global culture and the formation of historic world Conclusion Notes

Chapter Eight In Search of an Aesthetics of Emptiness: Two European Thinkers

Introduction: Japanese Philosophy in Dialogue 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 Tetsurō: Accidental Buddhist?

Introduction 1. Early life 2. The War and its Aftermath 3. Major works

3.1 Shamon Dōgen 3.2 Fūdo 3.3 Rinrigaku, volume one

Conclusion: The Accidental BUddhist? Notes Bibliography Further Reading

Chapter Ten Encounter in Emptiness: The I-Thou Relation in Nishitani Keiji’s Philosophy of Zen

1. The Twofold 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 Raichō Conclusions Notes BIBLIOGRAPHY Further Reading

Chapter Fourteen Affirmation via Negation: Zen Philosophy of Life, Sexual Desire, and Infinite Love

Introduction 1. Three Zen thinkers, a short introduction 2. The question of religion and sexual desire 3. The semantic scope of “life” and the river as its imagery 4. Zen philosophy of Life: affirmation via negation 5. Philosophy and kenshō, the experience of initial awakening

5.1 Raichō’s case 5.2 D. T. Suzuki’s case 5.3 Nishida’s case

6. On Life and sexual desire

6.1 Raichō’s view 6.2 Suzuki’s view 6.3 Nishida’s view

Conclusion Notes Bibliography Further Reading

Timeline Index: Japanese Texts Cited Index: Names and Terms Series Information Copyright Page

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