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The Kyoto School was the most important philosophical current in Japan during the 20th century. In the context of a growing interest in Japanese philosophy, as well as in non-European philosophy in general, this essay represents the first attempt to set the political thought of Kiyoshi Miki (1897-1945) and Jun Tosaka (1900-1945) in dialogue with contemporary thought. Miki and Tosaka were both leftist thinkers interested in thinking through political action “from below.” This book introduces their concepts of “basic experience” and “everydayness” through conversation with contemporary theories of speculative realism, especially that of Mark Fisher. According to Miki and Tosaka, social myths are not just fictions but political “objects” with a life of their own, capable of generating political subjects and subverting the dominant ideology.

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Fernando Wirtz studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and received his PhD from the University of Tübingen with a thesis on the philosophy of mythology in Schelling (Mohr Siebeck, 2022). After several postdoctoral stays in Japan and Germany he is currently assistant professor at Kyoto University. He co-edited the book After Nothingness (Herder, 2023) and is the author of numerous articles for academic journals. He is also a board member for the Society for Intercultural Philosophy.

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