Confronting capital and empire : rethinking Kyoto school philosophy / edited by Viren Murthy, Fabian Schafer, Max Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murthy, Viren, editor.

Schäfer, Fabian, editor.

Ward, Max, editor.

Series:

Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective series ; Volume 6.

Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective Series, 2212-1730 ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--Japan--Kyoto--History--20th century.

Philosophy.

Philosophy, Japanese--20th century.

Philosophy, Japanese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

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 Kitarō, 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?

Contents:

Studying the Kyoto School / Viren Murthy , Fabian Schäfer and Max Ward

The Kyoto School and the Problem of Philosophy, History, and Politics

Philosophy and Answerability / Harry Harootunian

Rethinking Nishida Kitarō with Marx

The Labor Process and the Genesis of Historical Time / William Haver

Commodity Fetishism and the Fetishism of Nothingness / Elena Louisa Lange

Nishida Kitarō and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Philosophy / Christian Uhl

Tanabe Hajime, Imperialism, and Capitalism

Ethnicity and Species / Naoki Sakai

Aleatory Dialectic / Takeshi Kimoto

Tanabe Hajime as Storyteller / Max Ward

The Legacies of Kyoto School Philosophy

The Subjective Drive of Capital / Gavin Walker

Umemoto Katsumi, Subjective Nothingness, and the Critique of Civil Society / Viren Murthy

The “Logic of Committee” and the Newspaper Doyōbi (Saturday) / Aaron S. Moore

Yanagida Kenjūrō / Satofumi Kawamura

A Secret History / Katsuhiko Endo.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34390-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004343900 DOI