... 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...

..., 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...

...Philip Kaffen In 1950 Nakai Masakazu, the vice librarian of Japan’s new National Diet Library, and philosopher trained in aesthetics at Kyoto Imperial University, published an essay on cinema and contemporary aesthetics. He saw the developments of the past half century as a massive uprooting...

...-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...

... and Fall of the Kokuga Society (1918 – 28) and the Emergence of the Kokuten Style John Szostak Introduction In January 1918, five artists held a press conference in Kyoto to publicize the founding of a new exhibition collective (fig. 1). They named...

...) . 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...

... . Project Japan: Metabolism Talks . Cologne : Taschen GmbH . “ Kōtsū kōsha shusai Shinkansen ryokō puran shū .” 1964 . Tabi , no. 11 : 116 – 17 . Kuro no chōtokkyū . 1964 . Dir. Masumura Yasuzō . Tokyo : Daiei . Chōsaka Kyoto Shikai Jimukyoku , ed. 1959 – 64 . Kyoto shikai junpō...

... 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...

... visits to other Asian countries to garner support for the continued war in Iraq. Another rave demo took place in Kyoto on October 19 and followed a similar route, through Kyoto’s Shijô, a main drag of consumer culture.1...

... 1949 and 1966. Emiko Kida currently teaches Korean culture as a lecturer in the International Culture Department at Otani University in the Kyoto area. Her research focuses on modern and con- temporary Korean art...

... 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...

... the series of fascist attacks on academic freedom in the so-called Takikawa Incident at Kyoto Imperial University as well as the whole politi- cal turmoil surrounding the tenn kikan setsu (the state organ theory of the emperor) in interwar Japan...

... Ilson . 2014 . Rupo Kyoto Chosen Gakko Shugeki Jiken: Heito Kuraimu ni Koshite (Report on the Attack on the Kyoto Korean Ethnic School: Resisting Hate Crime) . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten . Okinawa-ken Heiwa Kinen Shiryokan (Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum) . n.d. “ Okinawa Battle Q...

... there to exploit Japan’s economic prosperity. The two texts to be discussed here, John David Morley’s Pictures from the Water Trade: Adventures of a Westerner in Japan and Pic0 Iyer’s Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto, suggest...