The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy (Oxford Handbooks)

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. Cover......Page 1 The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 PART I Shintō and the Synthetic Nature of Japanese Philosophical Thought......Page 108 1 Prince Shōtoku’s Constitution and the Synthetic Nature of Japanese Thought......Page 110 2 Philosophical Implications of Shintō......Page 124 3 National Learning: Poetic Emotionalism and Nostalgic Nationalism......Page 138 PART II Philosophies of Japanese Buddhism......Page 154 4 Saichō’s Tendai: In the Middle of Form and Emptiness......Page 156 5 Kūkai’s Shingon: Embodiment of Emptiness......Page 172 6 Philosophical Dimensions of Shinran’s Pure Land Buddhist Path......Page 186 7 Modern Pure Land Thinkers: Kiyozawa Manshi and Soga Ryōjin......Page 208 8 The Philosophy of Zen Master Dōgen: Egoless Perspectivism......Page 228 9 Dōgen on the Language of Creative Textual Hermeneutics......Page 242 10 Rinzai Zen Kōan Training: Philosophical Intersections......Page 258 11 Modern Zen Thinkers: D. 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Suzuki, Hisamatsu Shin’ichi, and Masao Abe......Page 274 PART III Philosophies of Japanese Confucianism and Bushidō......Page 298 12 Japanese Neo-​Confucian Philosophy......Page 300 13 Ancient Learning: The Japanese Revival of Classical Confucianism......Page 318 14 Bushidō and Philosophy: Parting the Clouds, Seeking the Way......Page 334 PART IV Modern Japanese Philosophies......Page 358 15 The Japanese Encounter with and Appropriation of Western Philosophy......Page 360 The Kyoto School......Page 392 16 The Kyoto School: Transformations Over Three Generations......Page 394 17 The Development of Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy: Pure Experience, Place, Action-​Intuition......Page 416 18 Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy: Self, World, and the Nothingness Underlying Distinctions......Page 444 19 The Place of God in the Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime......Page 458 20 Miki Kiyoshi: Marxism, Humanism, and the Power of Imagination......Page 474 21 Nishitani Keiji: Practicing Philosophy as a Matter of Life and Death......Page 492 22 Ueda Shizuteru: The Self That Is Not a Self in a Twofold World......Page 512 Other Modern Japanese Philosophies......Page 528 23 Watsuji Tetsurō: The Mutuality of Climate and Culture and an Ethics of Betweenness......Page 530 24 Kuki Shūzō: A Phenomenology of Fate and Chance and an Aesthetics of the Floating World......Page 550 25 Comparative Philosophy in Japan: Nakamura Hajime and Izutsu Toshihiko......Page 570 26 Japanese Christian Philosophies......Page 590 27 Yuasa Yasuo’s Philosophy of Self-​Cultivation: A Theory of Embodiment......Page 602 28 Postwar Japanese Political Philosophy: Marxism, Liberalism, and the Quest for Autonomy......Page 618 29 Raichō: Zen and the Female Body in the Development of Japanese Feminist Philosophy......Page 640 30 Japanese Phenomenology......Page 658 31 The Komaba Quartet: A Landscape of Japanese Philosophy in the 1970s......Page 676 PART V Pervasive Topics in Japanese Philosophical Thought......Page 690 32 Philosophical Implications of the Japanese Language......Page 692 33 Natural Freedom: Human/​Nature Nondualism in Zen and Japanese Thought......Page 712 34 Japanese Ethics......Page 746 35 Japanese (and Ainu) Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art......Page 762 36 The Controversial Cultural Identity of Japanese Philosophy......Page 782 Index......Page 808 "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. 0The 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."-- Provided by publisher This Handbook Is Currently In Development, With Individual Articles Publishing Online In Advance Of Print Publication. 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