... examines the ways in which this methodology of the gap may be more adequate than other attempts to characterize contemporary comparative philosophy. jayhetrick@protonmail.com Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Gilles Deleuze East Asia gap comparative philosophy François Jullien...

... for The Miki Kiyoshi Reader and is finishing translations of Miki’s Logic of Imagination (Ksryoku no ronri) and Philosophy of Technology (Gijutsu tetsugaku). John Namjun Kim is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University...

...Naoki Sakai The transpacific relationship between the United States and Japan has been analyzed, discussed, and diagnosed ever since the U.S. occupation of Japan. Despite the variety and wealth of scholarship on this topic, however, the dearth of comparative studies with respect to fascistic...

... of Exchange and coeditor of Philosophy of Communication His most recent publication is the essay “Of Digits and Things” in a special issue of Cultural Studies on German media theory that he coedited. He has translated the works...

... readers raise anew in the conclusions to their critical analysis of Badiou’s philosophy. In L’ange, the first volume of a projected Ontologie de la révolution that would never be completed, Lardreau and Jambet explicitly compare...

...Richard F. Calichman In this essay I underline the terms of the debate surrounding the relation between the political and philosophical discourse of wartime Japanese philosophy. I argue that discourses that emphasize the political at the cost of the philosophical not only demean the importance...

.... There are two important disadvantages with methods of philosophical history. One is that it uses Western philosophy’s categories and concepts to try to understand Chinese structures of thought, so in the comparative positions 20:1 Winter 2012...

... with sharp powers to disrupt current, received, disciplined studies of race and history. In “Deleuze and East Asia: Toward a Comparative Methodology of the Gap,” Jay Hetrick differentiates Orientalism and his arguments while noting their long partnership. His end point is that because Deleuze grasped...

...Yan Hairong Duke University Press 2007 Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Yan Hairong Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is university professor and director of the Cen- ter for Comparative Literature and Society...

..., 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...

... Althusser associated this idea of conjuncture with the “material philosophy of the encounter,” an optic through which to under- stand the historical reality of those moments when diverse circumstances confront each other and create a “world, torn...

.... A supposedly avant-garde engagement with urban exteriority from its very beginnings contained an ambiguous spiritualism. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 A Page of Madness cinema Japanese modernism Kawabata Yasunari (1899–1972) the senses vitalism in philosophy Yokomitsu Riichi (1898...

... anthropological philosophy took shape around visual data so that defini- tion and seclusion of “racial ethnic difference” depended on accruing and compositing pictorial stereotypes. In the second, the graphic representations of these alleged races...

... for Scholarly Exchange, to complete a book with Sir Geoffrey Lloyd that compares the formation of early Greek and Chinese natural philosophy, science, and medicine. ...

..., this article questions the assertion that the “preconversion” and “postconversion” works can be strictly separated in terms of their content. Rather than making an immediately political argument, it examines the contemporaneity of Japanese and Korean philosophy of the 1930s and 1940s, through close readings...

... discursive practices, is linguistically specific as well as context-bound, I see the relationship between languages as one of the central issues that it is incumbent upon comparative scholarship to address. This essay will look...

...–1958). Jerry Won Lee is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as faculty affiliate in the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies as well as core faculty in the Culture and Theory...

... on a comparative and transnational study of erotic zones (including queer cultures) in twentieth- century East Asia, a piece of which appears in the Transgender Studies Reader, Volume 2 (2013). His first book, Assimilating Seoul: The Politics of Public Space...

... at Aichi Prefectural University. His research examines Japanese media culture and globalization through intersections of moving image studies, political philosophy, and interdisciplinary theories of mind. His writing on these topics appears in the journals Mechademia and Contemporary Japan...

...: the introduction to Japan of new trends in foreign thought, and the articulation of a new approach to philosophy based on the everyday thought of the ordinary person (common man's philosophy). A focus on these projects reveals the influence of one of the two women cofounders, Tsurumi Kazuko, and contributes...