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Bloomsbury Philosophy, 2019
This book brings together the work of two significant figures in contemporary philosophy. By cons... more This book brings together the work of two significant figures in contemporary philosophy. By considering the work of Tanabe Hajime, the Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School, and William Desmond, the contemporary Irish philosopher, Takeshi Morisato offers a clear presentation of contemporary comparative solutions to the problems of the philosophy of religion. Importantly, this is the first book-length English-language study of Tanabe Hajime's philosophy of religion that consults the original Japanese texts.
Considering the examples of Christianity and Buddhism, Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy focuses on finding the solution to the problem of philosophy of religion through comparative examinations of Tanabe's metanoetics and Desmond's metaxology. It aims to conclude that these contemporary thinkers - while they draw their inspiration from the different religious traditions of Christianity and Mahayana Buddhism - successfully reconfigure the relation of faith and reason.
Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy marks an important intervention into comparative philosophy by bringing into dialogue these thinkers, both major figures within their respective traditions yet rarely discussed in tandem.
For more info: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/faith-and-reason-in-continental-and-japanese-philosophy-9781350092532/
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Mimesis International, 2020
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The present volume is the latest example of what the European network of scholars in Japanese phi... more The present volume is the latest example of what the European network of scholars in Japanese philosophy has been up to in recent few years. The papers collected here, most of them presented at conferences held in Barcelona and Nagoya during the past year, have been arranged in four thematic parts. The first two parts cover the history of Japanese philosophy, as their topics extend from premodern thinkers to twentieth century philosophers; the last two parts focus on Nishida and Watsuji respectively.
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Metodo, 2019
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The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion
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Read "The Restaurant with Many Orders" and go for a walk.
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Narrating Secularisms: Being between Identities in a Secularized World. Edited by William Desmond... more Narrating Secularisms: Being between Identities in a Secularized World. Edited by William Desmond & Dennis Vanden Auweele (Washington D. C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2017): 121–144.
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Fortune de la philosophie cartésienne au Japon, 2017
“Hyperbolic Skepticism: Tanabe Hajime’s Response to Cartesian Metaphysics,” in <i>Fortune de la p... more “Hyperbolic Skepticism: Tanabe Hajime’s Response to Cartesian Metaphysics,” in <i>Fortune de la philosophie cartésienne au Japon</i>. Edited by Pierre Bonneels and Jaime Derrenne, 72–90. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017.
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This article provides a critical introduction to, and the first English translation of, the dialo... more This article provides a critical introduction to, and the first English translation of, the dialogue held between Nishida Kitarō and Miki Kiyoshi in October 1935. The topic of their discussion was the question of the particular character of Japanese culture and philosophy. In the introductory sections of this article, I will reflect on some of the main points that Nishida proposes in response to Miki’s questions, and clarify what these insights mean for a culture or a historical framework of thought, including Japanese culture and philosophy. In light of this expository reflection on Nishida’s take on the nature of Japanese culture and philosophy, I will reflect on the significance of scholarly work in the field of Japanese studies and Japanese philosophy beyond the Japanese cultural milieu. The text concludes with a translation of the Miki-Nishida dialogue.
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Appendix to Philosophy as Metanoetics (Nagoya: Chisokudo Publications, 2016), 447–62. Available a... more Appendix to Philosophy as Metanoetics (Nagoya: Chisokudo Publications, 2016), 447–62. Available at https://tsw.createspace.com/title/6578836
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The Japan Mission Journal 70 no. 2 (2016): 86–96.
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EJJP
European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Vol. 6, 2021
Open Access: https://ejjp-journal.org
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The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network ... more The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, is a peer-reviewed journal published annually in the fall. Its aim is to provide a forum for critical articles and translations related to Japanese philosophy. Contributions are welcome in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Japanese.
Publisher: Chisokudo PublicationsISSN: 2367-3095
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The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network ... more The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, is a peer-reviewed journal published annually in the fall. Its aim is to provide a forum for critical articles and translations related to Japanese philosophy. Contributions are welcome in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Japanese.
Publisher: Chisokudo Publications
ISSN: 2367-3095
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The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network ... more The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, is a peer-reviewed journal published annually in the fall. Its aim is to provide a forum for critical articles and translations related to Japanese philosophy. Contributions are welcome in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Japanese.
ISSN: 2367-3095
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The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network ... more The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, is a peer-reviewed journal published annually in the fall. Its aim is to provide a forum for critical articles and translations related to Japanese philosophy. Contributions are welcome in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Japanese.
Publisher: Chisokudo Shuppan
ISSN: 2367-3095
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Classics of Philosophy in Japan (CPJ)
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In this collection of seven essays on the "logic of species," Tanabe Hajime, a major figure in th... more In this collection of seven essays on the "logic of species," Tanabe Hajime, a major figure in the Kyoto School, confronts the philosophy of his mentor, Nishida Kitaro, head-on as he sets forth his own systematic logic and lays the groundwork for his later work.
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Considering the examples of Christianity and Buddhism, Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy focuses on finding the solution to the problem of philosophy of religion through comparative examinations of Tanabe's metanoetics and Desmond's metaxology. It aims to conclude that these contemporary thinkers - while they draw their inspiration from the different religious traditions of Christianity and Mahayana Buddhism - successfully reconfigure the relation of faith and reason.
Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy marks an important intervention into comparative philosophy by bringing into dialogue these thinkers, both major figures within their respective traditions yet rarely discussed in tandem.
For more info: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/faith-and-reason-in-continental-and-japanese-philosophy-9781350092532/
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EJJP
Publisher: Chisokudo PublicationsISSN: 2367-3095
© Chisokudo Publications 2018 | Also available as an Apple iBook
Publisher: Chisokudo Publications
ISSN: 2367-3095
ISSN: 2367-3095
Publisher: Chisokudo Shuppan
ISSN: 2367-3095
Classics of Philosophy in Japan (CPJ)
Considering the examples of Christianity and Buddhism, Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy focuses on finding the solution to the problem of philosophy of religion through comparative examinations of Tanabe's metanoetics and Desmond's metaxology. It aims to conclude that these contemporary thinkers - while they draw their inspiration from the different religious traditions of Christianity and Mahayana Buddhism - successfully reconfigure the relation of faith and reason.
Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy marks an important intervention into comparative philosophy by bringing into dialogue these thinkers, both major figures within their respective traditions yet rarely discussed in tandem.
For more info: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/faith-and-reason-in-continental-and-japanese-philosophy-9781350092532/
Publisher: Chisokudo PublicationsISSN: 2367-3095
© Chisokudo Publications 2018 | Also available as an Apple iBook
Publisher: Chisokudo Publications
ISSN: 2367-3095
ISSN: 2367-3095
Publisher: Chisokudo Shuppan
ISSN: 2367-3095
Publication Date: Sept 14 2016
Price: $8 US
ISBN: 153764856X / 9781537648569
Page Count: 186 / Size: 6" x 9"
Language: Japanese
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Publication Date: Aug 14 2016
Price: 10.70 USD
ISBN: 1537087355 / 9781537087351
Page Count: 282 / Size: 6" x 9"
Language: Japanese
This translation is a work in progress and if you have any suggestions, criticisms or questions, etc please feel free to contact the translator.
To maintain the difference between "gūzensei" (偶然性) and "gūzen" (偶然), I have translated the former as "contingency" and the latter as "contingents" (except for Chapter 2 Section 5). Whether or not this distinction has any significance needs further investigations and I also believe that there will be more cases in which it would be better to use different terms than contingency and/or contingents for conveying the meaning of 偶然 and 偶然性 in different contexts.
This translation is a work in progress and if you have any suggestions, criticisms, questions, etc., please feel free to contact the translator.
Special thanks to Sean Winkler for his variable comments on the text.
Special thanks to Cody Staton (KU Leuven) for the helpful suggestions.
Special thanks to Cody Staton (KU Leuven) for the helpful suggestions.
Besides his intellectual works as an author and public intellectual, Nakai was involved with the process of making the motion pictures in colour as well as with social activism against the Fascist tendencies of the Japanese society in 1930s (through his most famous work, "The Logic of Committee"). Because of the leftist movement before and during WWII, the conservatives in post-war Japan made sure that he would not be promoted from the vice librarian to the head of the National Diet Library. But without the great sacrifice of the vice librarian, the great library that we see today in Tokyo would be much less that what it is.
This English translation of Nakai's bibliography is a work in progress. Please contact the translators for the questions, criticisms, suggestions, etc.
This is a (collaborative) work in progress and what we have listed so far by no means exhausts what are currently available in the field of academia. If anyone wishes to contribute to the Nishida bibliography or notice any mistake, please contact the authors!
taking account of this limit of logicism involves explaining their understanding of the unity of subject and object in human knowing. For this, Tanabe argues, recourse to Nishida’s notion of pure experience is
indispensable.
This article introduces English translations of Tanabe’s two essays entitled “Moral Freedom” and “On Moral Freedom Revisited.” In these essays, Tanabe tries to understand the unity of the contradictory division between freedom and necessity, while remaining truthful to the moral experience. Freedom is ultimately characterized as ideality (or a task) that we ought to realize in reality, while the stage of religion constitutes the ultimate end of such moral struggles. Tanabe does not clearly work out how the continuity of the freedom-necessity discontinuity is possible in these essays. Nevertheless, we can gain insight into the early stages of Tanabe’s practical metaphysics that culminate in his mature works on the philosophy of religion. The translators’ introduction will highlight these points and also provide a brief description of the historical background in which the publication of these texts took place in 1917.
Special thanks to Cody Staton (KU Leuven) and Anton Luis Sevilla (Ateneo de Manila University) for their critiques and editorial suggestions.
After working on this translation for a few months, I am absolutely convinced that it is far from being the perfect translation. I must confess that my knowledge of ancient Chinese is too poor (to say the least) and also that I left some serious difficulties with this translation unsolved. One of the complex issues with this text is the translation of the term "Ethics" (Chi. lúnlǐ, Jp. rinri 倫理) and other relevant terms. Watsuji's reflections on the historical significance of the Chinese term 倫理 require that it should be referred as lúnlǐ (since he is reflecting on the original meaning that starkly differs from the general usage of the word "Ethics" in his contemporary west) but then, at some point, Watsuji seems to insert his own take on the philosophical notion of ethics. When his constructive use of the term "倫理" seems to take on its own meaning or if Watsuji seems to make his own contribution to the field of ethics, it would be more appropriate to translate 倫理 or 倫理学 as Rinri or Rinrigaku (as Yamamoto-Carter text clearly does).
This transition from Watsuji's historical narrative of the term to his original contribution seems take place in this section of "The Meaning of the Word 'Ethics' (rinri 倫理)" but I cannot yet make a conclusive claim on this issue. I would like to beg some patience from my readers (especially Watsuji specialists) in case they find this incomplete translation repulsive. I have learned so much from trying to translate this text and what I have so far could be useful for those who are curious to know what Watsuji says in this text without sufficient fluency in Japanese to read the original.
For the convenience of tracing the WTZ, a page break is indicated with two vertical lines (||) and translator's notes are put in brackets. This is a work in progress and if you have any suggestions, criticisms, questions, etc., please feel free to contact the translator.
Special thanks to David Johnson for his helpful suggestions and constructive criticisms over the earlier draft.
Moreover, non-standard philosophy tries to establish what will serve as an underlying principle of democracy in thought. Philosophy re-produces and reasserts itself through the production of knowledge, feeding on its own self-sufficiency while non-standard philosophy tries to liberate knowledge by using its generic potential so that new forms of thought and knowledge can emerge. Philosophy defines, confines, and shapes subjects and objects, non-standard philosophy tries to use the available knowledge in a way that eludes known philosophical constraints. There can not be real democracy without first and foremost instituting a democracy in thought, and this is where non-standard philosophy will be used to provide a future platform and methodology grounded in genericity of knowledge and immanence rather than traditional metaphysics. We need a novel path of least philosophical resistance if we are to achieve these goals.
– Creation, re-creation and re-appropriation of pilgrimage routes in contemporary society
_ “Secular” pilgrimages
_ Media representations of pilgrimages
_ Pilgrimage and movement through the landscape
_ Landscapes and identity
_ Recent theoretical and methodological trends in studies of pilgrimage
Interdisciplinary papers on these topics in an East Asian context are particularly welcome. For more information and abstract submisison, contact Takeshi at Takeshi.Morisato@ulb.ac.be.