New Phenomenological Studies in Japan

The development of phenomenological philosophy in Japan is a well-established tradition that reaches back to the early 20th-century. The past decades have witnessed significant contributions and advances in different areas of phenomenological thought in Japan that remain unknown, or only partially known, to an international philosophical public. This volume offers a selection of original phenomenological research in Japan to an international audience in the form of an English language publication. The contributions in this volume range over classical figures in the phenomenological movement (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Monty), recent trends in French phenomenology, and contemporary inter-disciplinary approaches. In addition to this diverse engagement with European thinkers, many of the contributions in this volume establish critical and complimentary discussions with 20th-century Japanese philosophers.

• Akrasia and Practical Rationality
• Continental Philosophy
• Experience, Expression, and Reason
• Heidegger in Japan
• Husserlian Objects
• Husserl in Japan
• Japanese Philosophy
• Levinas in Japan
• Levinas’ Philosophy
• Phenomenology in Japan
• Phenomenology of Time
• Things and Reality
• Truth and Sincerity

• Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA

  Nicolas de Warren

• Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  Shigeru Taguchi

Nicolas de Warren is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Among his numerous publications in phenomenology, history of philosophy, literature, and Continental thought, he is the author of A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time: On Krzysztof Michalski's Nietzsche (2018) and co-editor of Philosophers at the Front. Phenomenology and the First World War (2018).

Shigeru Taguchi is Professor of Philosophy at Hokkaido University. He is the author of Das Problem des ,Ur-Ich' bei Edmund Husserl. Die Frage nach der selbstverständlichen ,Nähe' des Selbst (2006) and numerous articles in phenomenology and Japanese philosophy.

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