.... 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...

... 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...

..., MA : Harvard University Press . Torretti Roberto . 1999 . The Philosophy of Physics . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Wang Geng . 1933 . “Minzhong jiankang jiaoyu de jiben gongzuo: Shengming tongji” (“The Fundamental Work of Mass Health Education: Vital Statistics...

... of the Visual: Japanese Modernism, Technol­ ogy, Vitalism” retools 1920s “new sensationism.” Similarly to Long, Hay­ ter proposes an analytical approach that she shows emerged in a historical conjuncture. The neosensationalist movement, she argues...

... 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...

... are involved, a vital institution for the exercise of power, and as a rich and complex theoretical problem. I will attempt to explicate this set of issues with the assistance of certain works of three great contemporary philosophers, all recently deceased—Jean-François Lyotard’s The Differend (1983), Edward...

..., vitalism and irrationalism, and fanaticism, which Liu’s oral and written texts raise through the term kuang and which figure jouissance in singular fashion. Liu’s shift from philosophy to politics and his embrace of the subjectivity called “political...

...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...

... with what it claims are issues of philosophi- cal and aesthetic substance, Song of Youth offers us an intelligent, passionate, young woman whose love of country is as strong as her commitment to the positions 14:1 © 2006 by Duke University Press...

... at the same time as the aesthetic debate. In 1958, the philosopher Yang Xianzhen criticized the Soviet Concise Dictionary of Philosophy’s con- fusion of two kinds of identity as Marxist propositions: the identity of thought and existence...

... faith in the ability of the Chinese population to assimilate and absorb non- Chinese elements in the historical long term.20 Kang Youwei’s philosophy perfectly illustrates how Western learning could be combined with the tenets...

... the claims of the radical rightist project and claim truth on the basis of evidence. Focus on the pragmatics of truth among professional intellectuals brings Rebecca Karl’s “Journalism, Social Value, and a Philosophy of the Everyday...

..., and yet was far from being a mere copy of notions inherited from the European storehouse of political philosophy. Recalling once again that the First World War was actually the point of no return with regard to the nineteenth-century notion...

... in English. Many Anglo-American readers thus almost by default limit themselves to the later and shorter books, starting with the 1999 edition of Manifesto for Philosophy (1989) all the way to the deceptively simple 2002 edition of Eth...

... 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...

... 700 Benjamin writes in his celebrated 1940 essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” “does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was5 Instead, Benjamin asserts that the cultural historian must recognize that “history...

...: 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...

... the figure of an impossible exteriority: This time I left China, I have frequently heard praise such as “It’s the first time I’ve ever heard a Chinese speak like that” or “That a Chinese can have such an understanding of Western philosophy...

... was not to get rid of desire and violence, but to articulate them rationally. The juridical state as “human community” thus becomes the first and last aim of “World History.” But a historical philosophy that speaks of human community as an invention...

... to such a mission that is vital.” By the early 1940s Miki had disavowed this mission; true to his own philosophy of praxis, he sheltered a Communist friend who had escaped police custody, was arrested, and died under miserable conditions just days...