Table Of Content

Title Page Page: ii Copyright Page Page: iv Dedication Page: v Contents Page: vii Preface Page: xi Contributors Page: xv What Is Japanese Philosophy? Page: 1 Part I Shintō and the Synthetic Nature of Japanese Philosophical Thought Page: 81 1 Prince Shōtoku’s Constitution and the Synthetic Nature of Japanese Thought Page: 83 2 Philosophical Implications of Shintō Page: 97 3 National Learning: Poetic Emotionalism and Nostalgic Nationalism Page: 111 Part II Philosophies of Japanese Buddhism Page: 127 4 Saichō’s Tendai: In the Middle of Form and Emptiness Page: 129 5 Kūkai’s Shingon: Embodiment of Emptiness Page: 145 6 Philosophical Dimensions of Shinran’s Pure Land Buddhist Path Page: 159 7 Modern Pure Land Thinkers: Kiyozawa Manshi and Soga Ryōjin Page: 181 8 The Philosophy of Zen Master Dōgen: Egoless Perspectivism Page: 201 9 Dōgen on the Language of Creative Textual Hermeneutics Page: 215 10 Rinzai Zen Kōan Training: Philosophical Intersections Page: 231 11 Modern Zen Thinkers: D. T. Suzuki, Hisamatsu Shin’ichi, and Masao Abe Page: 247 Part III Philosophies of Japanese Confucianism and Bushidō Page: 271 12 Japanese Neo-Confucian Philosophy Page: 273 13 Ancient Learning: The Japanese Revival of Classical Confucianism Page: 291 14 Bushidō and Philosophy: Parting the Clouds, Seeking the Way Page: 307 Part IV Modern Japanese Philosophies Page: 331 15 The Japanese Encounter with and Appropriation of Western Philosophy Page: 333 The Kyoto School Page: 365 16 The Kyoto School: Transformations Over Three Generations Page: 367 17 The Development of Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy: Pure Experience, Place, Action-Intuition Page: 389 18 Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy: Self, World, and the Nothingness Underlying Distinctions Page: 417 19 The Place of God in the Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime Page: 431 20 Miki Kiyoshi: Marxism, Humanism, and the Power of Imagination Page: 447 21 Nishitani Keiji: Practicing Philosophy as a Matter of Life and Death Page: 465 22 Ueda Shizuteru: The Self That Is Not a Self in a Twofold World Page: 485 Other Modern Japanese Philosophies Page: 501 23 Watsuji Tetsurō: The Mutuality of Climate and Culture and an Ethics of Betweenness Page: 503 24 Kuki Shūzō: A Phenomenology of Fate and Chance and an Aesthetics of the Floating World Page: 523 25 Comparative Philosophy in Japan: Nakamura Hajime and Izutsu Toshihiko Page: 543 26 Japanese Christian Philosophies Page: 563 27 Yuasa Yasuo’s Philosophy of Self-Cultivation: A Theory of Embodiment Page: 575 28 Postwar Japanese Political Philosophy: Marxism, Liberalism, and the Quest for Autonomy Page: 591 29 Raichō: Zen and the Female Body in the Development of Japanese Feminist Philosophy Page: 613 30 Japanese Phenomenology Page: 631 31 The Komaba Quartet: A Landscape of Japanese Philosophy in the 1970s Page: 649 Part V Pervasive Topics in Japanese Philosophical Thought Page: 663 32 Philosophical Implications of the Japanese Language Page: 665 33 Natural Freedom: Human/Nature Nondualism in Zen and Japanese Thought Page: 685 34 Japanese Ethics Page: 719 35 Japanese (and Ainu) Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Page: 735 36 The Controversial Cultural Identity of Japanese Philosophy Page: 755 Index Page: 781

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Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books, and articles. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy is a foundation-laying reference work that covers, in detail and depth, the entire span of this philosophical tradition, from ancient times to the present. It introduces and examines the most important topics, figures, schools, and texts from the history of philosophical thinking in premodern and modern Japan. Each chapter, written by a leading scholar in the field, clearly elucidates and critically engages with its topic in a manner that demonstrates its contemporary philosophical relevance. The Handbook opens with an extensive introductory chapter that addresses the multifaceted question, "What is Japanese Philosophy?" The first fourteen chapters cover the premodern history of Japanese philosophy, with sections dedicated to Shinto and the Synthetic Nature of Japanese Philosophical Thought, Philosophies of Japanese Buddhism, and Philosophies of Japanese Confucianism and Bushido. Next, seventeen chapters are devoted to Modern Japanese Philosophies. After a chapter on the initial encounter with and appropriation of Western philosophy in the late nineteenth-century, this large section is divided into one subsection on the most well-known group of twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, The Kyoto School, and a second subsection on the no less significant array of Other Modern Japanese Philosophies. Rounding out the volume is a section on Pervasive Topics in Japanese Philosophical Thought, which covers areas such as philosophy of language, philosophy of nature, ethics, and aesthetics, spanning a range of schools and time periods. This volume will be an invaluable resource specifically to students and scholars of Japanese philosophy, as well as more generally to those interested in Asian and comparative philosophy and East Asian studies.