The Kyoto School and International Relations

Kosuke Shimizu is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Global Studies and the Director of the Research Centre of World Buddhist Cultures at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, and Research Associate of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He was Visiting Scholar of Copenhagen University, Denmark. His recent publications include ‘Political Healing and Mahāāa Buddhist Medicine: A Critical Engagement with Contemporary International Relations’, Third World Quarterly (2021), and ‘An East Asian Approach to Temporality, Subjectivity, and Ethics: Bringing Mahāāa Buddhist Ontological Ethics of Nikon into International Relations’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2021). He has also published two edited books in English: Critical International Relations Theories in East Asia: Relationality, Subjectivity, and Pragmatism (2019) and Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific: Migration, Language, and Politics (2015, co-edited with William S. Bradley).

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Preface

1 Introduction

2 East Asian IR Revisited

3 Encounter, Transformation of Time and Self-Colonisation: The Japanese Modernisation

4 Nishida Kitaro and Tanbae Hajime: The First Generation of the School

5 The Transcendental Whole and ‘Inclusiveness’: The Discourse of the Big 4

6 Miki Kisyoshi’s Philosophy of Imagination: Towards Everyday Life

7 Tosaka Jun’s Theory of Critical Relationality: Morality of Everydayness

8 The Reception of the Kyoto School Philosophy in the Post-war Era

9 Bringing Bodily Experience Back In Post-war Japanese IR

10 Conclusion: Towards a Mahāyāna Buddhist IR?

Bibliography

Index