Japanese Environmental Philosophy
Published on 15. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-19-045633-7 (ISBN)
Description
Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from Japanese philosophical traditions to investigate our relationships with other humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. It contains chapters from fifteen top scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe. The essays cover a broad range of Japanese thought, including Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, the Kyoto School, Japanese art and aesthetics, and traditional Japanese culture.
Reviews / Votes
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. * Philosophy East and West * It is, to my knowledge, one of the most (if not the most) comprehensive collections dealing with environmental philosophy in Japan ... it is abundant in ideas, hints, and clues that can help us develop a new frame of mind to help us deal with contemporary environmental problems. Secondly, it is structured upon the premise that "philosophy" should not be understood in a narrow sense (e.g., the Graeco-European tradition), but broadly as the practice of thinking about the world ... it is clear from their inclusion of thinkers as diverse as Dogen and Kukai, Watsuji and Imanishi that their stance on philosophy is very open and inclusive. * Roman Pasca, H-Net *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
577 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-045633-7 (9780190456337)
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Persons
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 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).
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).
Editor
University Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor of PhilosophyUniversity Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of North Texas
Associate Professor of Asian Philosophy and ReligionAssociate Professor of Asian Philosophy and Religion, Westminster College
Content
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Foreword: Back to the Future? Carl B. Becker
Introduction J. Baird Callicott and James McRae
Section I: Nature in the Japanese Tradition of Thought
1. Thinking the Ambient: On the Possibility of Shizengaku (Naturing Science) Augustin Berque
2. Pure Land Ecology: Taking the Supernatural Seriously in Environmental Philosophy Leah Kalmanson
3. From Kyosei to Kyoei: Symbiotic Flourishing in Japanese Environmental Ethics James McRae
Section II: Human Nature and the Environment
4. Kukai and Dogen as Exemplars of Ecological Engagement Graham Parkes
5. Sensation, Betweenness, Rhythms: Watsuji's Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Conversation with Heidegger INUTSUKA Yu
6. Climate Change as Existentialist Threat: Watsuji, Greimas, and the Nature of Opposites Steve Bein
Section III: Environmental Aesthetics
7. Whitehead's Perspectivism as a Basis for Environmental Ethics & Aesthetics:A Process View on the Japanese Concept of Nature Steve Odin
8. Japanese Gardens: The Art of Improving Nature Yuriko Saito
9. Kuki Shuzo and Platonism: Nature, Love, and Morality YAMAUCHI Tomosaburo
Section IV: Nature and Japanese Culture
10. Recollecting Local Narratives for the Land Ethic TOYODA Mitsuyo
11. Recognizing the Crucial Role of Culture in Japanese Environmental Philosophy Midori Kagawa-Fox
12. Kagura: Embodying Environmental Philosophy in the Japanese Performing Arts GODA Hiroko
Section V: Natural Disasters
1. Disaster Prevention as an Issue in Environmental Ethics TAKAHASHI Takao
2. Non-Dualism after Fukushima? Tracing Dogen's Teaching vis-a-vis Nuclear Disaster Masato Ishida
3. Planetary Philosophy and Social Consensus Building KUWAKO Toshio
Afterword J. Baird Callicott
Index
Contributors
Foreword: Back to the Future? Carl B. Becker
Introduction J. Baird Callicott and James McRae
Section I: Nature in the Japanese Tradition of Thought
1. Thinking the Ambient: On the Possibility of Shizengaku (Naturing Science) Augustin Berque
2. Pure Land Ecology: Taking the Supernatural Seriously in Environmental Philosophy Leah Kalmanson
3. From Kyosei to Kyoei: Symbiotic Flourishing in Japanese Environmental Ethics James McRae
Section II: Human Nature and the Environment
4. Kukai and Dogen as Exemplars of Ecological Engagement Graham Parkes
5. Sensation, Betweenness, Rhythms: Watsuji's Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Conversation with Heidegger INUTSUKA Yu
6. Climate Change as Existentialist Threat: Watsuji, Greimas, and the Nature of Opposites Steve Bein
Section III: Environmental Aesthetics
7. Whitehead's Perspectivism as a Basis for Environmental Ethics & Aesthetics:A Process View on the Japanese Concept of Nature Steve Odin
8. Japanese Gardens: The Art of Improving Nature Yuriko Saito
9. Kuki Shuzo and Platonism: Nature, Love, and Morality YAMAUCHI Tomosaburo
Section IV: Nature and Japanese Culture
10. Recollecting Local Narratives for the Land Ethic TOYODA Mitsuyo
11. Recognizing the Crucial Role of Culture in Japanese Environmental Philosophy Midori Kagawa-Fox
12. Kagura: Embodying Environmental Philosophy in the Japanese Performing Arts GODA Hiroko
Section V: Natural Disasters
1. Disaster Prevention as an Issue in Environmental Ethics TAKAHASHI Takao
2. Non-Dualism after Fukushima? Tracing Dogen's Teaching vis-a-vis Nuclear Disaster Masato Ishida
3. Planetary Philosophy and Social Consensus Building KUWAKO Toshio
Afterword J. Baird Callicott
Index