Monad and Thou : phenomenological ontology of human being / Hiroshi Kojima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kojima, Hiroshi, 1925-2006.

Series:

Series in Continental thought ; 27.

Series in Continental thought ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2000]

Summary:

The genesis for this volume was in the bombing of Japan during World War II, where the author, as a young boy, watched the bombers overhead, speculating about the lives of the pilots and their relationship with those huddled on the ground.

From this disturbing diorama, Professor Hiroshi Kojima, the translator of Martin Buber into Japanese, unfolds a new approach to Buber's "I-Thou" relation, drawing upon insights from Husserl, Heidegger, and others in the tradition of continental philosophy to extend and deepen Buber's thought.

In chapters that reflect upon a wide range of phenomena -- from religion, science, and technology, to imagination, embodiment, and power -- Professor Kojima articulates a conception of what it means to be a human being that stands as an alternative to atomism and alienation of the modern world. Analyses of haiku and other aspects of Japanese culture demonstrate how Kojima's theory can illuminate the spiritual traditions of both East and West.

Original in its thought and revealing in its insight into Japanese thought and culture, Monad and Thou represents the life's work of one of Japan's great thinkers.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Looking at the Back of a Thing: The Potential Plurality of Husserl's Transcendental Ego 3

Chapter 2 Transcendental Reflection without a Transcendental Ego 10

Chapter 3 The Vertical Intentionality of Time-Consciousness and Sense-Giving 21

Chapter 4 Perception and Imagination: The Point of Contact between Phenomenology and Ontology 37

Chapter 5 Immanence and Transcendence to the Monad and Religiousness 67

Chapter 6 The Monad and the Poem: Toward a Phenomenological Analysis of the Japanese Haiku 85

Chapter 7 The Monad and Others: The Fundamental Congruency of Leib and Korper 103

Chapter 8 Review of Modern Philosophical Theories of the Body 125

Chapter 9 On the Relation between Science and Technology 144

Chapter 10 The Phenomenological Ontology of Power: The Being of Things and the Being of the Fundamental Life-World (Monad) 158

Chapter 11 Some Problems Concerning the I-Thou Relation 173

Chapter 12 The Phenomenology of Thou 189

Chapter 13 The "I-Thou" Relationship in Modern Japanese Philosophy 205

Chapter 14 Some Phenomenological Elements of the Japanese Cultural Tradition 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-241) and index.

ISBN:

0821413201

OCLC:

42733582