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Title The Bloomsbury research handbook of contemporary Japanese philosophy / edited by Michiko Yusa
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Series Bloomsbury research handbooks in Asian philosophy
Contents 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 logic3.4 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 Japan1.1 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 Phenomenology3.1 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 Yomeigaku5. 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
Summary "A guide to the key areas of research in Japanese philosophical thought, confirming the relevance of philosophy in 21st century Japan"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Philosophy, Japanese -- 20th century.
Philosophy, Japanese -- 21st century.
Social & political philosophy.
Non-Western philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Philosophy, Japanese
Form Electronic book
Author Yusa, Michiko, editor
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