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.
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.
Innehållsförteckning
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;
