Nature, Disaster and Animism in Japan

Anima Philosophica
Herausgeber: Miho, Ishii; Tatsushi, Fujihara

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates various disastrous events and their aftermath in Japan to reveal a novel philosophy of life in contemporary Japan, which link humans, nature, and different forms of nonhumans including scientific technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350506848
• ISBN-10: 1350506842
• Artikelnr.: 72184061

Autorenporträt

Ishii Miho is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan. Fujihara Tatsushi is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Towards a novel philosophy of life
Ishii Miho and Fujihara Tatsushi (Kyoto University
Japan) Part 1: The War
Mourning and the Soul Reviving 2. Symbolism of 'The Sea' in Tomiyama Taeko's Art
Manabe Yuko (The University of Tokyo
Japan) 3. Science Fiction Films and the Repose of Souls: Narratives and Images of Government
Scientists
Media
and Citizens
in First Godzilla and Shin Godzilla
Arai Takashi (Artist resident in Berlin
Germany) 4. The Whereabouts of Reality in Motion: Soul-summoning rites during WWII
and mourning practices in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami
Ishii Miho (Kyoto University) Part 2: Pollution
Waste
Decomposition and Circulation 5. The Forest of Mandala: Minakata Kumagusu's environmental movement
Karasawa Taisuke (Akita University of Art
Japan) 6. Animism of discarded things: Why Mottainai ghosts and Apaches appeared in modern Japan
Fujihara Tatsushi (Kyoto University
Japan) 7. The reimagined capitalist nation-state and popular ethics: Humanizing and dehumanizing demarcations in the Minamata mercury-pollution patients' movement
Matsumura Keiichiro (Okayama University
Japan 8. After the Great Flood-Minuma Tambo and the returning dragon: The recurring appearance of the dragon deity
Inose Kohei (Meiji Gakuen University
Japan) Part 3: The Anima
Politics
and Time and Space of Nature 9. Paradise Lost: Miyawaki Akira
Ota Ryu
and the Environmentalist Movement on the Fringe of the Japanese New Left
Till Knaudt (Kyoto University
Japan) 10. The Fate of the Place: Japanese Experience of Place from Modernity to the Current Ecological Crisis
Shinohara Masatake (Kyoto University
Japan) 11. The Charisma of Mushrooms: Science as Adventure in Entangled Life
Satsuka Shiho (University of Toronto
Canada) 12. Waves Breaking
Palanquins Creaking: Crafting a Temporality of Life on the Edge of the Surf
Kimura Shuhei (Tsukuba University
Japan) Bibliography Index