... this possibility by emphasizing the importance of continuity between places in the past and the present of the historian. In other words, this method reduces to a process of narrating the historical identity of the Eurocentric discipline. Furthermore, I suggest that the work of the wartime Kyoto School contains...

...Takeshi Kimoto At a critical time in the Asia-Pacific war, the second generation of the Kyoto School of philosophy engaged in a discourse of war represented as Sekaishi-teki tachiba to Nihon ( The World Historical Position and Japan ) (1943). This book consists of three roundtable discussions...

...Aaron Stephen Moore In the 1930s, many Kyoto School philosophers as well as other intellectuals inquired into the nature of technology ( gijutsu ) amid the growth of heavy industrial capitalism, rapid mobilization for war, and the proliferation of technology throughout all areas of life. This essay...

...John Namjun Kim This contribution examines how the Kyoto School philosopher Miki Kiyoshi sought to justify Japanese imperialism as a project in “cosmopolitan liberation” in his anonymously authored treatise The Principles of Thought for a New Japan . It traces how Miki adopted and critiqued...

..., and, first and foremost, in the writings of Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945) and the Kyoto School of philosophy. By regarding Takeuchi's Lu Xun and his resistance, and Takeuchi's central notion of the contradictory self-identity of literature and politics, in light of Nishida's dialectics of individual and world...

... “conversion” to supporting the Japanese empire, through textual analysis that highlights the continuities and discontinuities between his earlier Hegelian-Marxist philosophy of history and his later concerns with cultural crisis and Kyoto School dialectics. The third part looks more specifically at Sŏ's...

...-language publications that represent Japan studies in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, the intensity of the debate on twentieth-century Japanese philosophy, and on the Kyoto School in particular, seems considerably greater...

... University. He has published on themes in the intellectual history of modern Japan, with a focus on the history of political and ethical philosophy. His publications include Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School...

... 南, – came up with half a century ago in the s; following that, Miyazaki Ichisada and other Kyoto School scholars devel- oped theses concerning “East Asian modernity” and “Song dynasty capi- talism.” These scholars raised the question...

...) . Tokyo : Tabata Shoten . Harootunian Harry D. 2008 . “ Time, Everydayness, and the Specter of Fascism: Tosaka Jun and the Philosophy’s New Vocation .” In Re-politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy , edited by Goto-Jones Christopher , 96 – 112 . Oxon, UK : Routledge...

... Harry . 2008 . “ Time, Everydayness, and the Specter of Fascism: Tosaka Jun and Philosophy’s New Vocation .” In Re-politicizing the Kyoto School as Philosophy , edited by Goto-Jones Christopher , 96 – 112 . New York : Routledge . Hashikawa Bunzō . [1960] 1998 . Nihon romanha...

... with such systems. So the encounter seems inevitable. As a point of reference, the Kyoto school philosophers read traditional Japanese ideas through the lens and lexicon of contemporary continental philosophy. Interestingly, they share much of the above philosophical lineage with Deleuze. It is therefore...

... as that employed by the editors of Rude Awakening: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism — the editorial policies and decisions of which I will examine below — would be to disavow the very strictures of institutionalized disavowal...

..., antiinstitutional, and underground cultures in Tokyo and Kyoto in the late 1960s. Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Performance Collectives in 1960s Japan: With a Focus on the “Ritual School” KuroDalaiJee This essay focuses on a set of artists’ collectives I call “gishiki...

..., Practices, and Institutions, 1920–1960 (2022) and Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (2017). He is currently working on a new book project tentatively titled Police Power in Modern Japan, 1870–1970 . ...

.... Influenced by his experience in the prewar Kyoto School, Umemoto sought to fill what he considered to be a gap in Marxism regarding the dimension of human subjectivity. At the end of 1947 he joined the JCP after opening the philosophical debate on shutaisei with his essay “Ningenteki jiyū no genkai” 人間的自由の...

... that the West had “challenged” China — albeit very brutally, through traf cking in opium, cannonades, and unequal treaties — and the Chinese “response” hastened its way to modernity. The Kyoto school of Naito Konan and Miyazaki Ichisada, which...

... School for Painting, as official advisors and judges on the selection panel. Concerted efforts had been made to recruit participants from beyond Kyoto, particularly Osaka’s Kitano Tsunetomi (1880 – 1947), and Tokyo’s Kobayashi Kokei (1883 – 1957...

... was attacked by orthodox Marxists who targeted his reference to concepts articulated by Kyoto School philoso- phers (see below). A further challenge came from modernists such as tsuka Hisao and Maruyama Masao, who approached...

... practices. In those years, when Japan was heavily invested in an imperi- alist war in Asia, orthodox philosophers of the Kyoto school held dominion over an aestheticized Japanese cultural landscape of their own creation. In response to this powerful...