Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo

ISBN-13: 9781138871298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 273 str.

Graham Mayeda

Opis

In this book, Graham Mayeda demonstrates how Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo, two twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, criticize and interpret Heideggerian philosophy, articulating traditional Japanese ethics in a modern idiom.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 What Is Ethics? Perspectives from East and West; Chapter 3 Space and Climate: Watsuji’s F?do and Heideggerian Existential Spatiality; Chapter 4 Space and Ethics: Ethics as Betweenness in Watsuji’s Rinrigaku; Chapter 5 Ethics and the Aesthetics of Difference: Phenomenology and Kuki’s Iki no k?z?; Chapter 6 Ethics, Contingency and Temporality: Kuki’s Ethics of Difference; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

O autorze

Graham Mayeda conducts research in both philosophy and law. His interests in philosophy focus on East Asian ethics and twentieth-century European philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas. He is currently and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Common Law at the University of Ottawa, Canada.