Japanese Environmental Philosophy

J. Baird Callicott is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy and author or editor of a score of books and author of dozens of journal articles, encyclopedia entries, and book chapters in environmental philosophy and ethics. Callicott has served the International Society for Environmental Ethics as President, Yale University as Bioethicist-in-Residence, and the National Socio-environmental Synthesis Center as Visiting Senior Research Scientist (funded by the National Science Foundation). His research goes forward simultaneously on four main fronts: theoretical environmental ethics, comparative environmental ethics and philosophy, the philosophy of ecology and conservation policy, and climate ethics. He taught the world's first course in environmental ethics in 1971 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His most recent book is Thinking Like a Planet: The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic (Oxford University Press, 2013).James McRae serves as Vice-Chair of the Faculty and Associate Professor of Asian Philosophy and Religion at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. His publications include the books Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought (with J. Baird Callicott, SUNY Press, 2014) and The Philosophy of Ang Lee (with Robert Arp and Adam Barkman, University Press of Kentucky, 2013).

Japanese Environmental Philosophy provides timely perspectives on the ecological exigencies facing our world while also offering essential scholarship in the burgeoning field of Japanese philosophy... [for] it offers fresh perspectives on key debates. The quality of the work in this anthology is excellent. ... Working through the volume the reader will engage with foundational aspects of Japanese cultural, religious, and philosophical traditions, with an eye toward contemporary environmental concerns. Given the mounting ecological crises we are experiencing throughout the world, environmental philosophy should not be confined to a specialized subfield. ... Japanese Environmental Philosophy is a model of how an anthology can open up a space for productive cross-cultural environmental theory and action.

• AcknowledgementsContributors Foreword: Back to the Future? Carl B. Becker Introduction J. Baird Callicott and James McRae Section I: Nature in the Japanese Tradition of Thought1. Thinking the Ambient: On the Possibility of Shizengaku (Naturing Science) Augustin Berque2. Pure Land Ecology: Taking the Supernatural Seriously in Environmental Philosophy Leah Kalmanson3. From Kyosei to Kyoei: Symbiotic Flourishing in Japanese Environmental Ethics James McRae Section II: Human Nature and the Environment4. Kukai and Dogen as Exemplars of Ecological Engagement Graham Parkes5. Sensation, Betweenness, Rhythms: Watsuji's Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Conversation with Heidegger INUTSUKA Yu6. Climate Change as Existentialist Threat: Watsuji, Greimas, and the Nature of Opposites Steve Bein Section III: Environmental Aesthetics7. Whitehead's Perspectivism as a Basis for Environmental Ethics & Aesthetics:A Process View on the Japanese Concept of Nature Steve Odin8. Japanese Gardens: The Art of Improving Nature Yuriko Saito9. Kuki Shuzo and Platonism: Nature, Love, and Morality YAMAUCHI Tomosaburo Section IV: Nature and Japanese Culture10. Recollecting Local Narratives for the Land Ethic TOYODA Mitsuyo11. Recognizing the Crucial Role of Culture in Japanese Environmental Philosophy Midori Kagawa-Fox12. Kagura: Embodying Environmental Philosophy in the Japanese Performing Arts GODA Hiroko Section V: Natural Disasters1. Disaster Prevention as an Issue in Environmental Ethics TAKAHASHI Takao2. Non-Dualism after Fukushima? Tracing Dogen's Teaching vis-à-vis Nuclear Disaster Masato Ishida3. Planetary Philosophy and Social Consensus Building KUWAKO Toshio Afterword J. Baird CallicottIndex