Tetsugaku Companion to Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy (Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy, 3)

Acknowledgements
Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: On the Originality and the Fruitfulness of the Encounter Between Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy
	1 When Japan Met Phenomenology
	2 Considering Some Reasons for Phenomenology’s Popularity in Japan
	3 From the Reception of Phenomenological Thinking in Japan to the Development of New Phenomenologies Through Japanese Thought
	4 Phenomenology Through Japan: Beyond any Borders
Part I: Nishida and the Encounter with Phenomenology in Japan
	Chapter 2: Nishida’s “Immanent” Philosophy of “Consciousness as Nothingness”
		1 Introduction
		2 Nishida’s Interpretation of Kantian Criticism
		3 “Place as Nothingness”
		4 Critical Immanent Philosophy of “Consciousness as Nothingness”
		5 Self-Awareness as Self-Determining
		6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: On the Negation-Based Structure of “Acting-Self-Awareness”: The Development of Nishida’s Phenomenological Thought
		1 Introduction
		2 The Phenomenological Nature of the “Logic of Place”
		3 The Significance of Nishida’s Critique of Phenomenology
		4 The Phenomenology of the Acting-Self
		References
	Chapter 4: Nishida Kitarō and Phenomenology
		1 Is Nishida Kitarō a Phenomenologist?
		2 Nishida and Phenomenology: A Debate
		3 Conclusion
		Abbreviations
		References
Part II: Japanese Philosophy and Phenomenology of Self-Awareness
	Chapter 5: Nishida and the Phenomenology of Self-Awareness
		1 A Simple Illustration of the Common Ground
		2 Three Meanings of Consciousness
		3 Nishida’s Mistaken Critique of Husserl’s Phenomenology
		4 Husserl’s Account of Lived Experience
		5 The Problem of “the I” in Husserl
		6 The Place of the Self in Nishida
		7 The Ambiguity of Reflection in Nishida
		8 The Phenomenological Debate About Reflection in Self-Awareness
		9 The Explanatory Power of Nishida’s Alternative Notion of Inherent Reflexivity
		10 Reflexivity Suggests How Self-Awareness Moves Beyond a Self
		11 The Possible Distinction Between Phenomenal and Phenomenological Consciousness
		12 The Displacement of the I
		13 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6: Heidegger and Nishida’s Transformations of Transcendental Reflection
		1 Introduction
		2 Kant on Transcendental Reflection
		3 Husserl on Transcendental-Phenomenological Reflection
		4 Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Method
		5 Nishida’s Chorological Method
		6 Conclusion
		References
Part III: Japanese Philosophy and Phenomenology of Alterity
	Chapter 7: Consciousness Without Boundaries? The Riddle of Alterity in Husserl and Nishida
		1 There Are no Boundaries of Consciousness: Its Non-contextual Character
		2 Otherness Without Boundaries
		3 Indeterminacy of Pure Consciousness in Husserl
		4 “Primal I” and Otherness Without Context
		5 Unifying Force Beyond Self and Other: The Early Nishida on Pure Experience
		6 Encounter Between I and Thou Beyond all Contexts
		7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Phenomenology Reaching Its Limits: Tanabe and Lévinas in 1934
		1 Tanabe, Lévinas and Phenomenology
		2 Lévinas’ ‘Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism’
		3 Tanabe’s Path to the Logic of Species and the Problematics of Corporeity
		4 Logic of Species as ‘World-Schematism’
		5 Conclusion
		References
Part IV: Japanese Ethics and Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity
	Chapter 9: Otaka Tomoo’s Conception of Sovereignty as Nomos: A Phenomenological Interpretation
		1 Introduction
		2 The Otaka-Miyazawa Controversy
		3 Otaka’s Philosophy of Law Before 1945
		4 The Philosophical Background of Otaka’s Argument for the Sovereignty of Nomos
		5 Concluding Remarks
		References
	Chapter 10: Ethics Can Only Be Hermeneutic and Not Phenomenological: A Critical Assessment of Watsuji Tetsurō’s Thesis
		1 Introduction
		2 Intentionality and Person: Watsuji’s Criticism of Basic Concepts in Phenomenology
			2.1 Intentionality
			2.2 Person
		3 Watsuji’s Thesis: Ethics Can Only be Hermeneutic and Not Phenomenological
			3.1 The Inseparability of Hermeneutics and Ethics in Watsuji’s Philosophy
			3.2 Hermeneutics Versus Phenomenology
			3.3 Guilt and Trust
		4 A Response to Watsuji’s Criticism of Phenomenology: On the Cartesian Elements in Phenomenological Ethics
		References
	Chapter 11: Watsuji’s Phenomenology of Aidagara: An Interpretation and Application to Psychopathology
		1 Watsuji on Embodiment and the Social Self
		2 Situating Aidagara
		3 Aidagara Embodied
		4 Aidagara as Bodily Self-Intimacy
		5 Aidagara as Intercorporeity
		6 Disturbances of aidagara in Schizophrenia
		7 “To have a leash on the kite so it doesn’t fly away…”
		References
Part V: Japanese Philosophy and the Development of New Phenomenological Perspectives
	Chapter 12: Self-Awareness as Transcendental Mediationality
		1 The Development of Nineteenth Century Theories of Self-Consciousness During and After the Nineteenth Century: Particularly Theories of Self-Consciousness in the Philosophy of Life
		2 Transcendental Mediationality: The Problem of Self-Consciousness in Phenomenology
		3 The Concept of Self-Awareness in Nishida Philosophy
			3.1 Self-Awareness and Expression: Acting-Intuition
			3.2 The Deepening of Self-Awareness: Individual Self-Awareness
		4 Problems Related to “Self-Awareness as Transcendental Mediationality”
		References
	Chapter 13: The Logic of Mediation: “Absolute Mediation” and “Logic of Species” in Tanabe’s Philosophy
		1 Introduction: The Phenomenon of “Mediation”
		2 Tanabe’s Philosophy and the Concept of Mediation
			2.1 Tanabe’s Philosophy as Mediation
			2.2 Hybrid and Multi-dimensional Thinking
		3 Mediation by Absolute Nothingness
			3.1 The Thought Process Behind the Absolute Dialectics
			3.2 Absolute Nothingness and the Differential
		4 World-Schema and Logic of Species
			4.1 Mediation and Schema
			4.2 Logic of Species
			4.3 “Multitude” and Baroque Philosophy
		References
	Chapter 14: The “Spiritual Oriental Philosophy” of Izutsu Toshihiko: Toward a “Structuralist Phenomenology”
		1 Introduction: The Philosophy of Izutsu Toshihiko
		2 Japanese Philosophy and “Oriental Philosophy”
		3 The Meaning of the Word “Spiritual”: The Double Phenomenological Reduction
		4 The Process of the “Spiritual Oriental Reduction”: The Triadic Diagram and Articulation Theory
		5 The Structuralist Phenomenology of the Mandala
		6 Conclusion: Phenomenon and Structure: Toward a “Structuralist Phenomenology”
		References
	Chapter 15: Recurrence and the Great Death
		1 Birthing and Dying
		2 Impermanence and Buddha-Nature
		3 Being-Time and Living-Dying
		4 The Great Death and Absolute Nothingness
		5 The Great Death and the Standpoint of Neither–Nor
		6 The Great Death and Eternal Recurrence
		References