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This is the first book on East-West comparative thought to critically analyze the Zen Buddhist model of self in modern Japanese philosophy from the standpoint of American pragmatism.

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Author:   Steve Odin (Professor, University of Hawaii-Manoa)
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.735kg
ISBN:  

9780791424926

ISBN 10:   0791424928
Pages:   482
Publication Date:   10 January 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought Cover Painting Acknowledgments Introduction The Social Self as an Intercultural Theme for Comparative Philosophy and Religion Part I. The Social Self in Modern Japanese Philosophy 1. Watsuji Tetsuro's Ningen Model of Japanese Selfhood 2. The Social Self and I-Thou Dialectic of Nishida Kitaro 3. The Dependency Self Model of Doi Takeo's Amae Psychology Part II: The Social Self in G. H. Mead and American Philosophy 4. The Social Self in Classical American Philosophy 5. The Social Self and I-Me Dialectic of G. H. .Mead Part III: The Social Self in Japanese and American Philosophy 6. Tanaka Odo and the Initial Reception of American Pragmatism in Japan 7. The Social Self in Mead and Confucianism 8. The Social Self in Mead, Zen, and Japanese Society 9. The Social Self in Mead and Watsuji 10. The Social Self in Mead and Nishida 11. Selfhood in the Social Psychology of Mead and Doi 12. The Social Self as a Body-Mind Interaction 13. The Social Self as a Human-Nature Interaction 14. The Social Turn in Philosophical Anthropology Notes Glossary of Sino-Japanese Terms References Note on Centers Index

Reviews

Odin makes an impressive case for the claim that the Chicago School pragmatism of George Herbert Mead provides the most adequate version of the 'social turn' in Western philosophy and thereby the best basis for understanding the self of modern Japanese Buddhist thought, especially Zen, which has undergone its own social turn. Odin then shows how Mead's 'social self' provides an illuminating basis for intercultural dialogue on such issues as individualism and groupism, freedom and determinism, universalism and relativistic particularism, mind and body, and humanity and nature. This is first-rate intercultural philosophy. - David Ray Griffin, School of Theology at Claremont Graduate School The exceptional achievement of Steve Odin involves his having marshalled an enormous amount of extremely apposite data, focusing on the notion of the social character of the self, and his adroit and ingenious use of this material in a manner which allows the reader to move in a variety of distinct directions in order to assay important implications of the 'paradigm shift' away from the Enlightenment's 'atomistic self' and toward the 'social self' of American pragmatism and modern Japanese philosophy. - David L. Hall, The University of Texas at El Paso

Author Information

Steve Odin is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He is the author of Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism: A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration vs. Interpretation, also published by SUNY Press.

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