Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective, #6)

Confronting Capital and Empire inquires into the relationship between philosophy, politics and capitalism by rethinking Kyoto School philosophy in relation to history. The Kyoto School was an influential group of Japanese philosophers loosely related to Kyoto Imperial University's philosophy department, including such diverse thinkers as Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, Nakai Masakazu and Tosaka Jun. Confronting Capital and Empire presents a new perspective on the Kyoto School by bringing the school into dialogue with Marx and the underlying questions of Marxist theory. The volume brings together essays that analyse Kyoto School thinkers through a Marxian and/or critical theoretical perspective, asking: in what ways did Kyoto School thinkers engage with their historical moment? What were the political possibilities immanent in their thought? And how does Kyoto School philosophy speak to the pressing historical and political questions of our own moment? Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Studying the Kyoto School: Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Marx's Critique of Modernity -- Part 1: The Kyoto School and the Problem of Philosophy, History, and Politics -- 1 Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History -- Part 2: Rethinking Nishida Kitarō with Marx -- 2 The Labor Process and the Genesis of Historical Time With Marx, With Nishida -- 3 Commodity Fetishism and the Fetishism of Nothingness: On the Problem of Inversion in Marx and Nishida -- 4 Nishida Kitarō and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Philosophy -- Part 3: Tanabe Hajime, Imperialism, and Capitalism -- 5 Ethnicity and Species: On the Philosophy of the Multiethnic State and Japanese Imperialism -- 6 Aleatory Dialectic -- 7 Tanabe Hajime as Storyteller: Or, Reading Philosophy as Metanoetics as Narrative -- Part 4: The Legacies of Kyoto School Philosophy -- 8 The Subjective Drive of Capital: Kakehashi Akihide's Phenomenology of Matter -- 9 Umemoto Katsumi, Subjective Nothingness, and the Critique of Civil Society -- 10 The "Logic of Committee" and the Newspaper Doyōbi (Saturday): Nakai Masakazu's Theory of Political Praxis -- 11 Yanagida Kenjūrō: A Religious Seeker of Marxism -- 12 A Secret History: Tosaka Jun and the Kyoto Schools -- Index Confronting Capital and Empire' inquires into the relationship between philosophy, politics and capitalism by rethinking Kyoto School philosophy in relation to history. The Kyoto School was an influential group of Japanese philosophers loosely related to Kyoto Imperial University?s philosophy department, including such diverse thinkers as Nishida Kitar?, Tanabe Hajime, Nakai Masakazu and Tosaka Jun.00'Confronting Capital and Empire' presents a new perspective on the Kyoto School by bringing the school into dialogue with Marx and the underlying questions of Marxist theory. The volume brings together essays that analyse Kyoto School thinkers through a Marxian and/or critical theoretical perspective, asking: in what ways did Kyoto School thinkers engage with their historical moment? What were the political possibilities immanent in their thought? And how does Kyoto School philosophy speak to the pressing historical and political questions of our own moment? This volume inquires into the relationship between philosophy, politics and capitalism by rethinking Kyoto School philosophy in relation to capitalist modernity.