... methodological insights into the history of political thought that might overcome this problem and provide for a more inclusive (or at least a less exclusive) approach to the field. Duke University Press 2009 The Kyoto School, the Cambridge School, and the History of Political Philosophy in Wartime Japan...

... intrinsically linked, not merely through tabloid exposure but through the exploration of the philosophical import of the everyday as a problem of social value. Duke University Press 2008 Journalism, Social Value, and a Philosophy of the Everyday in 1920s China Rebecca E. Karl Modern...

..., 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...

...: 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...

...Laura Hein Duke University Press 2008 The Art of Persuasion: Audiences and Philosophies of History Laura Hein This debate had a somewhat unconventional history. I originally wrote my comments as one of two double-blind reviewers addressing a draft...

...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...

..., 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...

... of the historical avant-gardes of the West, and it was transmitted to the postwar generation of artists, most notably, to the artists' collective Jikken Kōbō (Experimental Workshop; active 1951 – 57). This group exemplified the postwar Japanese reception of the Bauhausian philosophy of unified art, and Takiguchi...

... Watts—the article argues that there are ultimately deep resonances between Deleuze's philosophy, especially in its Bergso‐Leibnizian articulations, and specific East Asian ideas. The article begins by cataloging and commenting upon Deleuze's various references to Chinese and Japanese thought generally...

...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...

... Immanuel Kant's political philosophy and theory of subjectivity and argues that he unwittingly moved toward a view that he explicitly rejected, Hegelian cultural universality. Miki attempted to justify Japanese imperialism through a logic of cultural mediation by which the cultures of East Asia were...

... the relation between Kyoto School philosophy and the political in wartime Japan, because these have often been viewed in isolation from each other or framed simplistically in terms of political complicity or resistance to fascism. Nakai's thought during the prewar and wartime periods in particular is often...

... of modernity. Advertising objectifies the social. Thus while enlightened social theory in Chinese advertising markets is a phenomenon noted here in great detail, the point is that “society” underlies modernist theory as such. The discovery of the social in philosophy and in the dialectical advertising image...

... that the positions project has instigated pedagogic change, the contentious idea of “theory” in scholarship, and on editorial work and its relation to philosophy of history. The relation of the editor, her theory and practice of editing, and her relation to intellectual political history are explored at length...

...Katsuhiko Endo This article closely examines the very “ambiguity” of Osugi Sakae's “philosophy of labor movement” in relation to the ongoing “street fighting” in Japan and elsewhere. In doing so, it attempts to reveal the significance of his work in today's context. On the one hand, Osugi's thought...

..., ontologically, and ethically. In this article, the author’s aim is to consider Nakai’s writings—in tandem with a broader set of writings in philosophy and film theory—to rethink the place of cinema as it touches on these dimensions. Nakai’s emphasis on cinema is illuminating insofar as it deviates from...

...Meera Lee In an early essay on the implicit relationship between anthropocentrism and violence in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida centers his analysis on the meaning of “monstrosity,” which bears a signifying relation to the French term montre , meaning “to show, to demonstrate...

... and activism. I want to return to the ideas and experiences of Tsurumi Shunsuke and the institute’s early project for a “people’s philosophy” (hitobito no tetsugaku) because it is here, I argue, that we see some of the formative influences...

... today. This special issue puts the question of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China (GPCR) directly into French philosophy. How to “love” the Chi- nese Cultural Revolution and how to “carry” what it poses for our times...

... 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...