Confronting Capital and Empire
Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy
Published on 25. May 2017
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-90-04-34389-4 (ISBN)
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?
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?
Reviews / Votes
"There are no weak essays in the entire volume. The editors did a wonderful jobscreening for the best material on the subject and one can only hope that this will
open up new pathways in comparative continental thought, with more books
eventually published in this area to accommodate the new style of East-West"
-Dr Bradley Kaye, in Marx&Philosophy Review of Books, 8 July 2019.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-34389-4 (9789004343894)
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Persons
Viren Murthy, Ph.D. (2007), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Transnational Asian History in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published essays on Chinese and Japanese intellectual history and is author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (Brill, 2011). He is currently working on a project tentatively entitled Pan-Asianism and the Conundrums of Postcolonial Modernity.
Fabian Schaefer, Ph.D. (2008), Leipzig University, is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. He has published various articles and books, including Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology: Theories on the Press and its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918-1937 (Brill, 2012), and The Medium as Mediation: The Media and Media Theory in Japan (in German) (Springer, 2017).
Max Ward, Ph.D. (2011), New York University, is Assistant Professor of Japanese History at Middlebury College. He has published on a variety of topics related to Japan and social theory, and is currently completing a manuscript on the rehabilitation of political criminals in the interwar Japanese Empire.
Fabian Schaefer, Ph.D. (2008), Leipzig University, is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. He has published various articles and books, including Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology: Theories on the Press and its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918-1937 (Brill, 2012), and The Medium as Mediation: The Media and Media Theory in Japan (in German) (Springer, 2017).
Max Ward, Ph.D. (2011), New York University, is Assistant Professor of Japanese History at Middlebury College. He has published on a variety of topics related to Japan and social theory, and is currently completing a manuscript on the rehabilitation of political criminals in the interwar Japanese Empire.
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Studying the Kyoto School: Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Marx's Critique of Modernity
?Viren Murthy, Fabian Schaefer 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
List of Contributors
Introduction: Studying the Kyoto School: Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Marx's Critique of Modernity
?Viren Murthy, Fabian Schaefer 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