The book is divided into two parts, namely “Japanese Philosophy: Teaching and Research in the Global World” and “Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline.” The first part integrates reports on the state of teaching and research of Japanese philosophy. The areas discussed are Japan, Canada, France, Spain and Englishspeaking regions. The second part contains contributions on various topics of Japanese philosophy, such as papers on Nishida Kitaro, Kuki Shuzo, Tanabe Hajime to Sakabe Megumi as a contemporary thinker. These articles not only show the topics of Japanese philosophical debate, but also the potential of Japanese philosophical thoughts.
Preface
Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline: An Introduction
Part I: Japanese Philosophy: Teaching and Research in a Global World
James W. Heisig (Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture)
Japanese Philosophy and its New Students
Jacynthe Tremblay (Hokkaido University)
Teaching and research on contemporary Japanese philosophy in Belgium, Canada and France
Raquel Bouso (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Broadening philosophy: learning experiences from Japanese thought
Alfonso Falero (Salamanca University)
The Meaning of Japanese Philosophy. A Spanish Perspective
Curtis Rigsby (University of Guam)
Constructing a Course in Japanese Philosophy
Satofumi Kawamura (University of Tokyo)
Japanese Philosophy in Japan: Research, Teaching and Politics
Part II: Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline
Mayuko Uehara (Kyoto University)
The Philosophy of Nishi Amane – Toward the Creation of New Knowledge through Translational Inquiry
Michiko Yusa (Western Washington University)
Exploring the “Logic” of Topos with Sun Wukong
Katsuhito Inoue (Kansai University)
The Topic of Environmental Issues and The Japanese Philosophy
Liao Chin-ping (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
On the Cultural Discourses of Nishida Kitaro¯ and Suzuki Daisetsu
Lam Wing-keung (University of Tokyo)
Nishida Kitaro¯ and Confucian ethics: with a focus on “cheng”
Wong Yiu-hong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
The Structure of iki and Hermeneutic Phenomenology
Yosuke Takehana (O¯ tani University, Japan)
The Logic of the Transcendence of Life. Tanabe’s Theory of “World Schema” and Miki’s “Logic of the Imagination”
Taguchi Shigeru (Hokkaido University)
Reality as it is. Nishida and Tanabe on appearance and mediation
Gereon Kopf (Luther College)
“Nishida, Tanabe, and Maha¯ya¯na Buddhism: A Blueprint for a Critical Philosophy”
Yasuo Kobayashi (Aoyama Gakuin University)
About Professor Megumi Sakabe
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names