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Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture
Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo
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Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture
Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo
About this book
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 Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo explores how three of Japan's preeminent philosophers of the twentieth century—Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo—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, Bushido and Shinto. 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture
- Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture: Nishida Kitarō, Watsuji Tetsurō, and Kuki Shūzō
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Chapter 1
- Japanese Cultural and Social Philosophy in Context
- Chapter 2
- Watsuji Tetsurō’s Early Views on Culture
- Chapter 3
- The Development of Watsuji’s Theory of Culture and Climate
- Chapter 4
- Watsuji’s Three Climatic and Cultural Zones
- Chapter 5
- Kuki’s Hermeneutic Approach to the Floating World
- Chapter 6
- Kuki and Heidegger
- Chapter 7
- Kuki Shūzō’s Concepts of Culture and Society
- Chapter 8
- Nishida
- Chapter 9
- Nishida’s Views on Morality and Culture
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author