Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline (eBook)

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.

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