Yoko Arisaka

Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover

Apart from a pure philosophical interest or an interest in Japanese intellectual history, one might ask: “What are the insights from Nishida’s philosophy that might still be relevant in today’s context?” In order to answer this question, I discuss two themes. First, I examine Nishida’s philosophical insights that refer to our individual selves. Exp...

The paper provides an overview of the rise of Japanese philosophy during the period of rapid modernization in Japan after the Meiji Restoration (beginning in the 1860s). It also examines the controversy surrounding Japanese philosophy towards the end of the Pacific War (1945), and its renewal in the contemporary context. The post-Meiji thinkers eng...

Liberaler Multikulturalismus sollte Integration und Antirassismus unterstützen, aber alltäglicher Rassismus bleibt eine Realität. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert erst einige Punkte, die mit »race« und Rassismus verbunden werden und diskutiert zwei verbreitete liberale Lösungsansätze für das Rassismusproblem: den Begriff der Würde und den Begriff des Mult...

The coupling of 'self and other' as well as the issues regarding intersubjectivity have been central topics in modern Japanese philosophy. The dominant views are critical of the Cartesian formulation (pure, disembodied subjectivity), but the Japanese philosophers drew their conclusions also based on their own insights into Japanese culture and lang...

During the 1930s and 1940s, many Japanese intellectuals resisted Western cultural imperialism. This theoretical movement was unfortunately complicit with wartime nationalism. Kitaro Nishida, the founder of modern Japanese philosophy and the leading figure of the Kyoto School, has been the focus of a controversy as to whether his philosophy was inhe...

Zen Politics - Heisigjames W. and MaraldoJohn C., editors: Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, … the Question of Nationalism. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 381. $40.00. $19.95. paper.) - Volume 59 Issue 3 - Yoko Arisaka

In a recent paper on Heidegger, Frederick Olafson attacks Hubert Dreyfus for prioritizing our "social" existence (under the notion of das Man) over the individual. In a reply, Taylor Carman, defending Dreyfus, criticizes Olafson for his "subjectivist" notion of Dasein. This paper pursues the implication of this disagreement in the context of Heideg...

1. Technology and Critical Theory? In the rapidly changing arena of global politics today, nothing looms larger than the framework technology provides in determining the cultural, political, and economic fate of a people. Japanese philosopher Kiyoshi Miki observed already in the early 1940s that technology is not merely a sophisticated manipulation...