Cheung / Lam Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0690-9
Verlag: V&R unipress
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 006, Part, 285 Seiten

Reihe: Global East Asia

The book is divided into two parts, namely, “Japanese Philosophy: Teaching and Research in the Global World;” and “Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline.” In the first part, there are reports of the situation of teaching and research of Japanese philosophy. The areas discussed are Japan, Canada, France, Spain and English-speaking regions. In the second part, there will be papers on varies topics on Japanese philosophy, such as papers on Nishida Kitaro, Kuki Shuzo, Tanabe Hajime to contemporary thinker such as Sakabe Megumi. These papers not only show the topics on Japanese philosophical debates, but also are the potential of Japanese philosophical thoughts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheung, Ching-Yuen

Lam, Wing-Keung

Weitere Mitwirkende

Heisig, James W.

Tremblay, Jancynthe

Bouso Garcia, Raquel

Falero, Alfonso

Rigsby, Curtis

Kawamura, Satofumi

Uehara, Mayuko

Yusa, Michiko

Inoue, Katsuhito

Chin-ping, Liao

Yiu Hong, Wong

Takehana, Yosuke

Shigeru, Taguchi

Kopf, Gereon

Kobayashi, Yasuo

Huang, Chun-chieh

Cheung, Ching-yuen

Lam, Wing-keung

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Universitäten, Wissenschaftliche Akademien, Gelehrtengesellschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Body;8
5;Preface;8
6;Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline: An Introduction;12
7;Part I: Japanese Philosophy: Teaching and Research in a Global World;14
8;James W. Heisig (Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture): Japanese Philosophy and its New Students;16
8.1;Bibliography;23
9;Jacynthe Tremblay (Hokkaido University): Teaching and research on contemporary Japanese philosophy in Belgium, Canada and France;24
9.1;Introduction;24
9.2;1 Teaching of Japanese philosophy;24
9.3;2 Research in Japanese philosophy in Belgium and France;26
9.4;3 Research in Japanese philosophy in Canada;28
9.5;4 The French-speaking project “Philosophers of Japan in the twentieth century”;31
9.6;Bibliography;33
10;Raquel Bouso (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Broadening philosophy: learning experiences from Japanese thought;36
10.1;I. Introduction;36
10.2;II. Introducing Intercultural philosophy through Kyoto School;38
10.3;III. Understanding Japanese cultural and intellectual traditions through Kyoto School;42
10.4;IV. Conclusions;47
10.5;Bibliography;48
11;Alfonso Falero (Salamanca University): The Meaning of Japanese Philosophy. A Spanish Perspective;52
11.1;1.;52
11.2;2.;63
11.3;3.;75
11.4;Bibliography;80
12;Curtis Rigsby (University of Guam): Constructing a Course in Japanese Philosophy;82
12.1;(1) What is Japanese Philosophy?;82
12.1.1;(1.1) the proposed homogeneity and uniqueness of Japanese philosophy;84
12.1.2;(1.2) ideological [X] developments, [Y] traditions, and [Z] themes;89
12.1.2.1;(1.2a) summary of the three aspects of Japanese philosophy or of any historical-cultural intellectual tradition;90
12.1.2.2;(1.2b) three stages in the unfolding of Japanese philosophy;91
12.1.3;(1.3) broad & narrow definitions of Japanese philosophy;91
12.1.3.1;(1.3a) maximally broad account of Japanese Philosophy;93
12.1.3.2;(1.3b) Japanese terms for philosophy;95
12.1.3.3;(1.3c) narrow account of Japanese Philosophy;96
12.1.3.4;(1.3d) philosophical shifts of the 1970s;98
12.1.4;(1.4) the best way to explicate Japanese philosophy;98
12.2;(2) What is the Significance of Japanese Philosophy?;100
12.2.1;(2.1) Is Japanese philosophy genuine philosophy?;101
12.2.1.1;(2.1.1) the method of genuine philosophy;101
12.2.1.2;(2.1.2) the content of genuine Japanese philosophy;105
12.2.2;(2.2) How can the current philosophical mainstream contribute to the emergence of Japanese philosophy as genuine philosophy?;106
12.2.3;(2.3) What can Japanese philosophy contribute to the world?;107
12.2.3.1;(2.3.1) Japanese reformulations superior to Western originals?;107
12.2.3.2;(2.3.2) Japanese language as a heuristic for philosophy;109
12.2.3.3;(2.3.3) giving a sophisticated voice to the voiceless;110
12.2.3.4;(2.3.4) elucidating the relationship between culture and philosophy;111
12.2.3.5;(2.3.5) forging a comparative and discriminating synthetic method across traditions;113
13;Satofumi Kawamura (University of Tokyo): Japanese Philosophy in Japan: Research, Teaching and Politics;116
13.1;1. What is “Japanese Philosophy”?;116
13.2;2. Fanaticism or Rationalism toward National History? Inoue Tetsujir? and Hiraizumi Kiyoshi;119
13.3;3. Ideology of the Empirical: Muraoka Tsunetsugu and Tsuda S?kichi;123
13.4;4. Conclusion;128
14;Part II: Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline;130
15;Mayuko Uehara (Kyoto University): The Philosophy of Nishi Amane – Toward the Creation of New Knowledge through Translational Inquiry;132
15.1;1 Nishi Amane as a Translator;134
15.2;2 Translation and Philosophy – A Reinterpretation of “Ri” ?;137
15.3;3 Nishi Amane and Inoue Tetsujir?, Meiji Philosophers;144
16;Michiko Yusa (Western Washington University): Exploring the “Logic” of Topos with Sun Wukong;150
16.1;Association as a Topological Activity;151
17;Textual Exposition;152
17.1;The Logic of Topos;152
17.2;The Formation of the Notion of Topos;154
17.3;The Paradigm Shift from the Individual Self to the World;156
18;An Excursion;159
18.1;The Ontological Horizon: The Wager between Sun Wukong and the Buddha;159
18.2;The Existential Horizon: Wukong Is Saved by Xuanzang;160
18.3;The Social Horizon;162
18.4;Intellectual and Cultural Horizons: The Interaction of History and Stories (“Histoires”);163
19;Katsuhito Inoue (Kansai University): The Topic of Environmental Issues and The Japanese Philosophy;168
19.1;I;168
19.2;II;169
19.3;III;170
19.4;IV;171
19.5;V;172
20;Liao Chin-ping (Sun Yat-sen University, China): On the Cultural Discourses of Nishida Kitar? and Suzuki Daisetsu;174
20.1;Introduction;174
20.2;I. Cultural Forms of Religious Subjectivity;175
20.3;II. The Cultural Form of “Zettaimujuntekijikod?itsu” (Absolute Contradictory Self-Identity);177
20.4;III. Mu (nothingness) of Subjectivity and Its Culture;179
20.5;Conclusion;181
21;Lam Wing-keung (University of Tokyo): Nishida Kitar? and Confucian ethics: with a focus on “cheng”;182
21.1;Nishida Kitar? and Confucianism: an undeniable connection;182
21.2;Cheng: Nishida and its Confucian connection;183
21.3;Cheng: Nishida and Confucian ethics;187
21.4;Cheng: Nishida, Confucianism and ethics;192
21.5;Concluding remarks;193
22;Wong Yiu-hong (Chinese University of Hong Kong): The Structure of iki and Hermeneutic Phenomenology;194
22.1;Introduction;194
22.2;1. Method and the Way of Thinking;195
22.3;2. Culture and History – Phenomenon and Experience;197
22.4;3. Phenomenology: Why Heidegger than Husserl?;199
22.4.1;Heidegger's Method – Formal Indication (formale Anzeige) as the ?new way';202
22.4.1.1;a) Resistance and Transform;205
22.4.1.2;b) Occasional Expression and Formal Indication;207
23;Yosuke Takehana (?tani University, Japan): The Logic of the Transcendence of Life. Tanabe’s Theory of “World Schema” and Miki’s “Logic of the Imagination”;212
23.1;1. Life as a Social Body;213
23.2;2. Transcendence in the Body;215
23.3;3. “Logic of the Species” as the Theory of “World Schema”;218
23.4;4. The logic of the Imagination and Form;222
24;Taguchi Shigeru (Hokkaido University): Reality as it is. Nishida and Tanabe on appearance and mediation;230
24.1;Introduction;230
24.2;1. Emanation Theory: Tanabe's Criticism of Nishida;231
24.3;2. Nishida's Idea of “Pure Experience”;231
24.4;3. Tanabe's Early Thinking: From Emanation to Contradiction;233
24.5;4. There is no unifying reality: Nishida's Response to Tanabe?;234
24.6;5. Nishida and Tanabe on the Absolute that is Relative;236
24.7;6. Nishida against Tanabe on Mediation and Contradiction;237
24.8;7. Conclusion: Two Aspects of Philosophical Confrontation with Reality;238
24.9;References;239
24.9.1;Abbreviations;239
25;Gereon Kopf (Luther College): “Nishida, Tanabe, and Mah?y?na Buddhism: A Blueprint for a Critical Philosophy”;242
25.1;1) the call for critical philosophy;243
25.2;2) Nishida's “basho”;245
25.3;3) re-reading Nishida's logic of basho;248
25.4;4) Nishida's logic of basho as critical philosophy;254
25.5;5) Nishida's philosophy as subversive philosophy;257
25.6;6) an attempt at a critical philosophy;259
25.7;7) conclusion;265
25.8;Works Cited;266
25.8.1;Abbreviations;266
25.8.2;Other Sources;266
26;Yasuo Kobayashi (Aoyama Gakuin University): About Professor Megumi Sakabe;270
27;Notes on Contributors;278
28;Index of Names;284

Über Autor(innen)

Huang, Chun-chieh
Prof Dr Chun-chieh Huang is National Chair Professor and Dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Lam, Wing-keung
Dr Lam Wing-keung is currently Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo.

Cheung, Ching-Yuen
Dr Cheung Ching-yuen has taught philosophy for seven years and is currently lecturer at the Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Cheung, Ching-yuen
Dr Cheung Ching-yuen has taught philosophy for seven years and is currently lecturer at the Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lam, Wing-Keung
Dr Lam Wing-keung is currently Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo.