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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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Author:   Graham Mayeda
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9781498572101

ISBN 10:   1498572103
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   15 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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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Graham Mayeda is associate professor of law at the University of Ottawa.

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