Ritsumeikan University Asia-Japan Research Series
Evolving Postwar Japanese Philosophy: Odyssey towards a Contemporary Cosmology through the Human Body, Technology, and Ecology
《Profile of the author》
| MATSUI Nobuyuki Affiliation: Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University Specialized field: Japanese Philosophy, International Relations |
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| The scope of this book covers themes such as philosophy of the Kyoto School in wartime Japan, the Japanese collective responsibility of the World War II, philosophy of Nakamura Yujiro and Karatani Kojin, the contemporary digitalization and so on. Through tackling these various philosophical and political issues, the author tries to reconsider the significance of philosophical thinking today. |
《Table of Contents (total. 241pages)》
| Forward (YAMASHITA Norihisa) |
| Author’s Preface |
| Chapter 1: Rifts and Burdens in the History of Thought in Postwar Japan: Discontinuity as the Condition of Continuity |
| Chapter 2: Institution, Subjectivity, and Evil from the “Place of Nothingness”: Social Philosophy of Nakamura Yujiro as the Post Excluded Middle Law |
| Chapter 3: “Common Sense” and Encounters after the “Capital-Nation-State” in the Digital Age: Nakamura Yujiro and Karatani Kojin in their Philosophies of Imagination |
| Chapter 4: What is the “Question Concerning Technology” in Japan: Rhythm and Cybernetics |
| Concluding Remarks |
| References |
| Index |
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