Confronting capital and empire : rethinking Kyoto school philosophy
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Confronting capital and empire : rethinking Kyoto school philosophy
(Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective, v. 6)
Brill, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Confronting Capital and Empire inquires into the relationship between philosophy, politics and capitalism by rethinking Kyoto School philosophy in relation to history. The Kyoto School was an influential group of Japanese philosophers loosely related to Kyoto Imperial University's philosophy department, including such diverse thinkers as Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime, Nakai Masakazu and Tosaka Jun.
Confronting Capital and Empire presents a new perspective on the Kyoto School by bringing the school into dialogue with Marx and the underlying questions of Marxist theory. The volume brings together essays that analyse Kyoto School thinkers through a Marxian and/or critical theoretical perspective, asking: in what ways did Kyoto School thinkers engage with their historical moment? What were the political possibilities immanent in their thought? And how does Kyoto School philosophy speak to the pressing historical and political questions of our own moment?
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Studying the Kyoto School: Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Marx's Critique of Modernity
Viren Murthy, Fabian Schafer and Max Ward
Part 1: The Kyoto School and the Problem of Philosophy, History, and Politics
1 Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History
Harry Harootunian
Part 2: Rethinking Nishida Kitaro with Marx
2 The Labor Process and the Genesis of Historical Time: With Marx, With Nishida
William Haver
3 Commodity Fetishism and the Fetishism of Nothingness: On the Problem of Inversion in Marx and Nishida
Elena Louisa Lange
4 Nishida Kitaro and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Philosophy
Christian Uhl
Part 3: Tanabe Hajime, Imperialism, and Capitalism
5 Ethnicity and Species: On the Philosophy of the Multiethnic State and Japanese Imperialism
Naoki Sakai
6 Aleatory Dialectic
Takeshi Kimoto
7 Tanabe Hajime as Storyteller: Or, Reading Philosophy as Metanoetics as Narrative
Max Ward
Part 4: The Legacies of the Kyoto School Philosophy
8 The Subjective Drive of Capital: Kakehashi Akihide's Phenomenology of Matter
Gavin Walker
9 Umemoto Katsumi, Subjective Nothingness, and the Critique of Civil Society
Viren Murthy
10 The "Logic of Committee" and the Newspaper Doyobi (Saturday): Nakai Masakazu's Theory of Political Praxis
Aaron S. Moore
11 Yanagida Kenjuro: A Religious Seeker of Marxism
Satofumi Kawamura
12 A Secret History: Tosaka Jun and the Kyoto Schools
Katsuhiko Endo
Index
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