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Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture

Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo

Graham Mayeda

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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Lexington Books
Pages: 298 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-7208-8 • Hardback • December 2020 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-1-4985-7210-1 • Paperback • August 2022 • $41.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-4985-7209-5 • eBook • December 2020 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
Subjects: Philosophy / Eastern, History / Asia / Japan, Philosophy / Social, Philosophy / Comparative Philosophy, Social Science / Traditional Cultures

Graham Mayeda is associate professor of law at the University of Ottawa.

Contents

Chapter 1: Japanese Cultural and Social Philosophy in Context

Chapter 2: Watsuji Tetsurō’s Early Views on Culture: A Study of Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara (Koji Junrei)

Chapter 3: The Development of Watsuji’s Theory of Culture and Climate: An Interpretation of Fūdo

Chapter 4: Watsuji’s Three Climatic and Cultural Zones: Anti-Essentialist and Deterministic Readings

Chapter 5: Kuki’s Hermeneutic Approach to the Floating World – Iki as the Living Form of Japanese Idealism

Chapter 6: Kuki and Heidegger – The Method for Interpreting Culture

Chapter 7: Kuki Shūzō's Concepts of Culture and Society -- The Intuition at the Heart of Ethics

Chapter 8: Nishida: Who I Am and Who You Are

Chapter 9: Nishida’s Views on Morality and Culture: The Moral Individual and the Moral Culture

Conclusion

Works Cited

About the Author

Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture

Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo

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Hardback
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Summary
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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.

Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 298 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-4985-7208-8 • Hardback • December 2020 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
    978-1-4985-7210-1 • Paperback • August 2022 • $41.99 • (£35.00)
    978-1-4985-7209-5 • eBook • December 2020 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
    Subjects: Philosophy / Eastern, History / Asia / Japan, Philosophy / Social, Philosophy / Comparative Philosophy, Social Science / Traditional Cultures
Author
Author
  • Graham Mayeda is associate professor of law at the University of Ottawa.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Contents

    Chapter 1: Japanese Cultural and Social Philosophy in Context

    Chapter 2: Watsuji Tetsurō’s Early Views on Culture: A Study of Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara (Koji Junrei)

    Chapter 3: The Development of Watsuji’s Theory of Culture and Climate: An Interpretation of Fūdo

    Chapter 4: Watsuji’s Three Climatic and Cultural Zones: Anti-Essentialist and Deterministic Readings

    Chapter 5: Kuki’s Hermeneutic Approach to the Floating World – Iki as the Living Form of Japanese Idealism

    Chapter 6: Kuki and Heidegger – The Method for Interpreting Culture

    Chapter 7: Kuki Shūzō's Concepts of Culture and Society -- The Intuition at the Heart of Ethics

    Chapter 8: Nishida: Who I Am and Who You Are

    Chapter 9: Nishida’s Views on Morality and Culture: The Moral Individual and the Moral Culture

    Conclusion

    Works Cited

    About the Author

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