The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism

Steve Odin is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He is the author of Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism: A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration vs. Interpretation, also published by SUNY Press.

Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
Cover Painting
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Social Self as an Intercultural Theme for Comparative Philosophy and Religion


Part I. The Social Self in Modern Japanese Philosophy


1. Watsuji Tetsuro's Ningen Model of Japanese Selfhood
2. The Social Self and I-Thou Dialectic of Nishida Kitaro
3. The Dependency Self Model of Doi Takeo's Amae Psychology


Part II: The Social Self in G. H. Mead and American Philosophy


4. The Social Self in Classical American Philosophy
5. The Social Self and I-Me Dialectic of G. H. .Mead


Part III: The Social Self in Japanese and American Philosophy


6. Tanaka Odo and the Initial Reception of American Pragmatism in Japan
7. The Social Self in Mead and Confucianism
8. The Social Self in Mead, Zen, and Japanese Society
9. The Social Self in Mead and Watsuji
10. The Social Self in Mead and Nishida
11. Selfhood in the Social Psychology of Mead and Doi
12. The Social Self as a Body-Mind Interaction
13. The Social Self as a Human-Nature Interaction
14. The Social Turn in Philosophical Anthropology


Notes
Glossary of Sino-Japanese Terms
References
Note on Centers
Index