1st Edition
Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy
Preface, James W. Heisig; The Kyoto School and the History of Political Philosophy: Reconsidering the Methodological Dominance of the Cambridge School, Chris Goto-Jones; Turns to and from Political Philosophy: The Case of Nishitani Keiji, Bret W. Davis; The Individual and Individualism in Nishida and Tanabe, Matteo Cestari; Constituting Aesthetic/Moral National Space – The Kyoto School and the Place of Nation, Yumiko Iida; Time, Everydayness and the Specter of Fascism: Tosaka Jun and Philosophy’s New Vocation, Harry D. Harootunian; What was the ‘Japanese Philosophy of History’? An Inquiry into the Dynamics of the ‘World-Historical Standpoint’ of the Kyoto School, Christian Uhl; Romanticism, Conservatism and the Kyoto School of Philosophy, Kevin M. Doak; The Definite Internationalism of the Kyoto School: Changing Attitudes in the Contemporary Academy, Graham Parkes; Resistance to Conclusion: Kyoto School Philosophy under the Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai
Biography
Christopher Goto-Jones is Professor of Modern Japan Studies and director of the Modern East Asia Research Centre at Leiden University. He has written widely on issues of the location of the non-European in political thought and philosophy, and is the author of Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co-Prosperity (Routledge, 2005).
