Introduction (KIDO Atsushi, NOE Keiichi and LAM Wing Keung)
Part I: Nishida Kitarō on Feeling
Chapter 1: The Orientation of Japanese Philosophy: Feeling in Nishida, or Scientific Attitude in Tanabe (UEHARA Mayuko)
Chapter 2: The Blue Flower in the Mirror of True Emptiness: An Approach to Nishida’s Active Feeling (Raquel BOUSO)
Chapter 3: The Feeling of Happiness, Moral Sentimentalism and Knowing-to: On Nishida Kitarō’s Energetism (LAM Wing Keung)
Chapter 4: The Role of Shuqing (Feeling-Expression) in Response to the Form of Formlessness: Its Role in Eastern Culture and Philosophies (LIU Kuan-Ling)
Chapter 5: Kannō dōkō and kō'ō in Japanese philosophy: A Blueprint for a Second Person Account (Gereon KOPF)
Part II: Feeling beyond Nishida Kitarō
Chapter 6: Japanese “Mono-no-aware” and Western Philosophy (SATO Toru)
Chapter 7: The Ethical Implications of Enlightenment in Dōgen’s Philosophy of Compassion (Rika DUNLAP)
Chapter 8: The Early Reception of Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence in Japan and its Emotional Features (KIDO Atsushi)
Chapter 9: Ressentiment and Love: Nietzsche, Scheler and Asano (CHEUNG Ching Yuen)
Chapter 10: Between the Authentic and the Artificial: A Thought Experiment on Kokoro (SATO Maki)
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.
This edited volume is the first in English that covers the philosophy of feeling and related topics in Japanese philosophy on Nishida Kitarō and fellow thinkers. Part I focuses on Nishida Kitarō’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 Kitarō 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.