Wataru Hiromatsu (1933-1994) was a Japanese philosopher who taught at the University of Tokyo, Department of History and Philosophyof Science. He developed his own philosophy based on Marx, phenomenology, and epistemology.Michael A. Santone, Jr. (translator) studied as a graduate student at the University of Tokyo under Hiromatsu. Santone taught philosophy atTemple University, Japan Campus, and now works as an independent researcher.

• IntroductionMakoko KatsumoriPART 1Introduction: the Stagnation of Philosophy and the Problems of Epistemology1 The Breakdown of the Modern Worldview and the “subject-object” Schema2 The Impasse of Conventional Epistemology and Abandoned Issues3 Problems and Viewpoints that The Rebirth of Epistemology Is Confronting1 The Fourfold Being Structure of the Phenomenal World1 Propaedeutic for Establishing a Starting Point2 The Two Object Factors in the Phenomenon3 The Subjective Duality of the Phenomenon4 The Fourfold Structural Relations of the Phenomenal World2 The Phenomenal Subsistence Structure of the Linguistic World1 The Fourfold Structure of the Informational World2 The Being Character of Linguistic Meaning3 The Subsistence Structure of Linguistic Interaction3 The Cooperative Subsistence Structure of the Historical World1 The Twofold Historical Formation and Its Reification2 The Twofoldness of the Historical Subject and Its Reification3 The Intersubjectivity of the Historical World and Its Fourfold StructurePART 24 The Ontological Foundation of Intersubjectivity1 The Bodily-self and the Dimension of Other-ness2 The Role-Subject and the Dimension of For-the-other-ness3 The Transcendental Subject and the Dimension of Coexistence5 The Epistemologically Fundamental Structure of Judgment1 The Psychological Aspects of the Theory of Judgment2 The Semantic Aspects of the Theory of Judgment3 Structuralist Aspect of the Theory of JudgmentReferencesIndex