Political Philosophy in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Philosophy in Japan write by Christopher Goto-Jones. This book was released on 2009-01-30. Political Philosophy in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political Philosophy in Japan focuses on the politics of Japan's pre-eminent philosophical school - the Kyoto School - and particularly that of its founder, Nishida Kitarô (1870-1945). Existing literature on Nishida is dismissive of there being serious political content in his work, and of the political stance of the wider school. Goto-Jones contends that, far from being apolitical, Nishida's philosophy was explicitly and intentionally political, and that a proper political reading of Nishida sheds new light on the controversies surrounding the alleged complicity of the Kyoto School in Japanese ultra-nationalism. This book offers a unique and potentially controversial view of the subject of Nishida and the Kyoto School.
The Political Philosophy of Modern Shintō
The Political Philosophy of Modern Shintō - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Philosophy of Modern Shintō write by Daniel Clarence Holtom. This book was released on 1922. The Political Philosophy of Modern Shintō available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations
Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations write by Felix Rösch. This book was released on 2018-09-16. Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an ever more globalized world, sustainable global development requires effective intercultural co-operations. This dialogue between non-western and western cultures is essential to identifying global solutions for global socio-political challenges. Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations critiques the formation of non-western International Relations by assessing Japanese political concepts to contemporary IR discourses since the Meji Restoration, to better understand knowledge exchanges in intercultural contexts. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of this dialogue, from international law and nationalism to concepts of peace and Daoism, this collection grapples with postcolonial questions of Japan’s indigenous IR theory.
Nothingness in the Heart of Empire
Nothingness in the Heart of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nothingness in the Heart of Empire write by Harumi Osaki. This book was released on 2019-02-26. Nothingness in the Heart of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto Schools moral and political philosophy, based on the schools founder Nishida Kitar?s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism. In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy tends to be undervalued and not investigated seriously. In the field of Japanese studies, in turn, research on Japanese philosophy tends to be reduced to a matter of projecting existing stereotypes of alleged Japanese cultural uniqueness through the reading of texts. In Nothingness in the Heart of Empire, Harumi Osaki resists both these tendencies. She closely interprets the wartime discourses of the Kyoto School, a group of modern Japanese philosophers who drew upon East Asian traditions as well as Western philosophy. Her book lucidly delves into the non-Western forms of rationality articulated in such discourses, and reveals the problems inherent in them as the result of these philosophers engagements in Japans wartime situation, without cloaking these problems under the pretense of Japanese cultural uniqueness. In addition, in a manner reminiscent of the controversy surrounding Martin Heideggers involvement with Nazi Germany, the book elucidates the political implications of the morality upheld by the Kyoto School and its underlying metaphysics. As such, this book urges dialogue beyond the divide between Western and non-Western philosophies, and beyond the separation between lofty philosophy and common politics. In this powerful book, Harumi Osaki announces herself as a major voice in Kyoto School scholarship. Drawing extensively on the work of Naoki Sakai, Osaki indicates that the problems of Western universalism and non-Western (Asian, Japanese) particularism are in fact but two sides of the same coin. This important insight, when put in the service of her considerable philosophical erudition, has allowed her to write what to my knowledge is the most intelligent, probing book on Nishida and the Kyoto School in the English language. Richard F. Calichman, author of Beyond Nation: Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe K?b?
A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901
A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901 write by 浩·渡辺. This book was released on 2012. A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1853 a flotilla of U.S. Navy warships led by Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrived in Japan. A scant fourteen years later the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had lasted two and a half centuries, was at an end. What lay behind the sudden collapse of samurai rule? Watanabe Hiroshi traces the quiet changes in political thought that culminated in the dramatic events of the Meiji Revolution in 1868. Confucian ideals such as a universal Way and benevolent government under a virtuous ruler possessing the mandate of heaven were taught by successive Japanese Confucians and came to permeate the country, posing an implicit threat to military rule. Over time the development of a national consciousness, the rising prestige of the imperial court in Kyoto, and increased knowledge of the Western world created the conditions for a national debate over opening up to the West and for radical political change.
