The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy

Michiko Yusa is Professor of Japanese Thought and Intercultural philosophy, Department of Modern & Classical Languages & the Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, USA

List of Abbreviation & Conventions
Introduction, Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University, USA

Part I: Making of Modern Japanese Philosophy: Phenomenology as a Case in Point
1. Phenomenology in Japan: Its Inception and Blossoming, Keiichi Noe, Tohoku University, Japan

Part II: Social and Political Themes
2. Confucianism in Modern Japan, Takahiro Nakajima, The University of Tokyo, Japan
3. The Political Thought of the Kyoto School: Beyond 'Questionable Footnotes' and 'Japanese-style Fascism', Kenn N. Steffensen, The University of Cork, Ireland
4. Metanoetics for the Dead and the Living: Tanabe Hajime, Karaki Junzo, & Moritaki Ichiro on the Nuclear Age, Nobuo Kazashi, Kobe University, Japan
5. In the Wake of 3.11 Earthquake of 2011: Philosophy of Disaster and Pilgrimage, Cheung Ching-yuen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Part III: Aesthetics
6. The Aesthetics of Tradition: Making the Past Present, Michele F. Marra
7. Bodily-Present Activity in History—An Artistic Streak in Nishida Kitaro's Thought, Enrico Fongaro, Tohoku University, Japan
8. In Search of an Aesthetics of Emptiness: Two European Thinkers, Raquel Bouso Garcia, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Part IV: Some Prominent 20th Century Thinkers
9. Watsuji Tetsuro: Accidental Buddhist? An Introduction, Steve Bein, University of Dayton, USA
10. Encounter in Emptiness: The I-Thou Relation in Nishitani Keiji’s Philosophy of Zen, Bret W. Davis, Loyola University Maryland, USA
11. Creative Imagination, Sensus Communis, and the Social Imaginary: Miki Kiyoshi and Nakamura Yujiro in Dialogue with the Contemporary Western Philosophy, John W. M. Krummel, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA
12. Nishida Kitaro as a Philosopher of Science, Keiichi Noe, Tohoku University, Japan

Part V: Philosophical Dialogue on Gender & Life
13. Japanese and Western Feminist Philosophies: A Dialogue, Erin McCarthy, St. Lawrence University, USA
14. Affirmation via Negation: Zen Philosophy of Life, Sexual Desire, and Infinite Love, Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University, USA

Appendix: Two Essays by Nishida Kitaro
"The Beauty of Calligraphy"
"On Japanese Short Poetry, Tanka"
About the authors
Timeline
Index of Japanese texts cited
Index of names and terms