Confronting Capital and Empire - Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy

This volume inquires into the relationship between philosophy, politics and capitalism by rethinking Kyoto School philosophy in relation to capitalist modernity.

About the author

Viren Murthy, Ph.D. (2007), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Transnational Asian History in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published essays on Chinese and Japanese intellectual history and is author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (Brill, 2011). He is currently working on a project tentatively entitled Pan-Asianism and the Conundrums of Postcolonial Modernity.

Fabian Schäfer, Ph.D. (2008), Leipzig University, is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He has published various articles and books, including Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology: Theories on the Press and its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918-1937 (Brill, 2012), and The Medium as Mediation: The Media and Media Theory in Japan (in German) (Springer, 2017).

Max Ward, Ph.D. (2011), New York University, is Assistant Professor of Japanese History at Middlebury College. He has published on a variety of topics related to Japan and social theory, and is currently completing a manuscript on the rehabilitation of political criminals in the interwar Japanese Empire.

Product details

• Assisted by: Viren Murthy (Editor), Fabian Schäfer (Editor), Max Ward (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2017
• EAN: 9789004343894
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34389-4
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Brill's Modern East Asia in a
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education