Christopher Goto-Jones

Political Philosophy in Japan

Nishida, the Kyoto School and co-prosperity - PbDirect

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Produktbeschreibung

Political Philosophy in Japan focuses on the politics of Japan's pre-eminent philosophical school - the Kyoto School - and particularly that of its founder, Nishida Kitarô (1870-1945). Existing literature on Nishida is dismissive of there being serious political content in his work, and of the political stance of the wider school. Goto-Jones contends that, far from being apolitical, Nishida's philosophy was explicitly and intentionally political, and that a proper political reading of Nishida sheds new light on the controversies surrounding the alleged complicity of the Kyoto School in Japanese ultra-nationalism. This book offers a unique and potentially controversial view of the subject of Nishida and the Kyoto School.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 319g
• ISBN-13: 9780415546614
• ISBN-10: 0415546613
• Artikelnr.: 40952616

Autorenporträt

Christopher Goto-Jones is lecturer in Modern Intellectual History at the University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Political Philosophy in Japan and the Contradictory Location
of Nishida Tetsugaku 1. Theorising Dissent - Intellectuals, Language, and
Political Sleight-of-Hand 2. The Politics of Harmony and Awakening -
Confucianism and Buddhism as Political Thought in Japan 3. The Early
Nishida and the Place of Japanese Political Philosophy 4. (Re)Locating the
Later Nishida - Ideology and Philosophy in Wartime Japan 5. Nishida's
Shadow - The Kyoto School and the Manipulation of Nothingness Conclusion:
The Philosophical Site of Politics in Japan - Shisô Sensô, and the Defeat
of Nishida Tetsugaku?