... media philosophy (Medienphilosophie) Kyoto school Nishida Kitarō Tanabe Hajime Nakai Masakazu ...

... , or “media philosophy.” Providing an overview of early debates on mediation and distilling many of the conceptual stakes of media theory that philosophers in 1930s Japan prepared, this chapter resituates the work of central figures such as Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, Tosaka Jun, and Nakai Masakazu...

... such as Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, Tosaka Jun, and Nakai Masakazu, as well as that of the sometimes marginalized figures of Watsuji Tetsurō and Kimura Bin. It suggests that these thinkers’ work on mediation and in-betweenness is the basis for a media philosophy, and is central to the media theory that came...