Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline

Chun-chieh Huang、Wing-keung Lam 編

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.

The editors

Dr. Ching-yuen Cheung (張政遠) has taught philosophy for seven years and is currently lecturer at the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Wing-keung Lam (林永強) is currently Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo.

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