The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Making of Modern Japanese Philosophy: Phenomenology as a Case in Point .........21 Phenomenology in Japan: Its Inception and Blossoming ......23 2. Social and Political Themes ....41 Confucianism in Modern Japan ..............43 The political thought of the Kyoto School: Beyond Questionable footnotes and Japanese-Style Fascism ..............65 Metanoetics for the Dead and the living : Tanabe hajime, Karaki junzo, and Moritaki ichiro on the nuclear age ....105 In the wake of 3.11 Earthquake: Philosophy of Disaster and pilgrimage......133 3. Aesthetics ....151 The Aesthetics of Tradition : Making the past present .......153 Bodily present activity in History : An Artistic Streak in Nishida Kitaro`s Thought .........167 In Search of an Aesthetics of Emptiness: Two European thinkers .....187 4. Some prominent twentieth-Century thinkers ...........205 Watsuji Tetsuro: Accidental Buddhist .................207 Encounter in Emptiness: The I-Thou relation in Nishitani keji`s philosophy of Zen ............231 Creative imagination, sensus communis, and the social imaginary : Miki Kiyoshi and nakamura Yujro in Dialogue ...........255 Nishida Kitaro as a Philosopher of Science .........285 5. Philosophical Dialogue on Gender and life .......307 Japanese and Western feminist philosophies .......309 Affirmation via Negation : Zen philosophy of life, sexual desire and infinite love ...........333