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This edited volume is the first in English that covers the philosophy of feeling and related topics in Japanese philosophy on Nishida Kitar and fellow thinkers. Part I focuses on Nishida Kitar 's philosophy of feeling, including, but not limited to, comparisons with Tanabe Hajime, Koyama Iwao, and provides coverage of Buddhist, moral and Chinese philosophy. Part II goes beyond Kitar into topics such as Japanese aesthetics, Nietsche's reception in Japan, and the philosophy of AI. This is a comprehensive scholarly text on feeling in Japanese philosophy, aimed at researchers and students working in the field.
List of contents
Introduction.- Part I: Nishida Kitar on Feeling.- Chapter 1: The Orientation of Japanese Philosophy: Feeling in Nishida, or Scientific Attitude in Tanabe.- Chapter 2: The Blue Flower in the Mirror of True Emptiness: An Approach to Nishida's Active Feeling.- Chapter 3: The Feeling of Happiness, Moral Sentimentalism and Knowing-to: On Nishida Kitar 's Energetism.- Chapter 4: The Role of Shuqing (Feeling-Expression) in Response to the Form of Formlessness: Its Role in Eastern Culture and Philosophies.- Chapter 5: Kann d k and k ' in Japanese philosophy: A Blueprint for a Second Person Account.- Part II: Feeling beyond Nishida Kitar .- Chapter 6: Japanese "Mono-no-aware" and Western Philosophy.- Chapter 7: The Ethical Implications of Enlightenment in D gen's Philosophy of Compassion.- Chapter 8: The Early Reception of Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence in Japan and its Emotional Features.- Chapter 9: Ressentiment and Love: Nietzsche, Scheler and Asano.- Chapter 10: Between the Authentic and the Artificial: A Thought Experiment on Kokoro.
About the author
NOE Keiichi is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Tohoku University and currently Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Ritsumeikan University. He specializes in philosophy of science. His publications include Philosophy of Betweenness, Philosophizing History, Invitation to Philosophy of Science, Hermeneutics of Science, What is Paradigm? The Scientific Revolution of T.S. Kuhn, Philosophy of Naratology (all in Japanese).
Kido Atsushi is Professor at Department of Philosophy, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Japan.
Lam Wing Keung is Professor at the Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Dokkyo University, Japan.
