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Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture
Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo
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2020
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In every part of the world and in every era, philosophers have reflected on the meaning of culture and its philosophical significance. Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture:Nishida Kitarō, Watsuji Tetsurō, and Kuki Shūzō explores how three of Japan's preeminent philosophers of the twentieth century—Nishida Kitarō, Watsuji Tetsurō and Kuki Shūzō—defined culture and analyzed what it tells us about social relations. Graham Mayeda also explores little-known aspects of the work of each philosopher, including a philosophical analysis of Watsuji's travel diary, Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara, the place of intuition in Kuki's ethics of otherness, and the role of culture in realizing Nishida's concept of reality as the historical world. Each of these three philosophers adapted philosophical methodologies such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, and dialectical logic to studying the traditional sources of Japanese culture: Confucianism, Buddhism, Bushidō and Shintō. This book focuses on the way that Nishida, Watsuji and Kuki critiqued the methodologies that they adopted from European philosophy and modified them to reflect the values that form the basis of their own cultural tradition. Finally, Mayeda engages with the problem of cultural essentialism by identifying the progressive and conservative elements of each philosopher's characterization of Japanese culture.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7208-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7209-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
290
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Dedication Page No access
Contents No access
Chapter 1 Japanese Cultural and Social Philosophy in Context No access Pages 1 - 30
Chapter 2 Watsuji Tetsurō’s Early Views on Culture No access Pages 31 - 60
Chapter 3 The Development of Watsuji’s Theory of Culture and Climate No access Pages 61 - 84
Chapter 4 Watsuji’s Three Climatic and Cultural Zones No access Pages 85 - 124
Chapter 5 Kuki’s Hermeneutic Approach to the Floating World No access Pages 125 - 144
Chapter 6 Kuki and Heidegger No access Pages 145 - 164
Chapter 7 Kuki Shūzō’s Concepts of Culture and Society No access Pages 165 - 196
Chapter 8 Nishida No access Pages 197 - 224
Chapter 9 Nishida’s Views on Morality and Culture No access Pages 225 - 256
