Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving
societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the
world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations,
books, and articles. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy is
a foundation-laying reference work that covers, in detail and
depth, the entire span of this philosophical tradition, from
ancient times to the present. It introduces and examines the most
important topics, figures, schools, and texts from the history of
philosophical thinking in premodern and modern Japan. Each chapter,
written by a leading scholar in the field, clearly elucidates and
critically engages with its topic in a manner that demonstrates its
contemporary philosophical relevance. The Handbook opens with an
extensive introductory chapter that addresses the multifaceted
question, "What is Japanese Philosophy?" The first fourteen
chapters cover the premodern history of Japanese philosophy, with
sections dedicated to Shinto and the Synthetic Nature of Japanese
Philosophical Thought, Philosophies of Japanese Buddhism, and
Philosophies of Japanese Confucianism and Bushido. Next, seventeen
chapters are devoted to Modern Japanese Philosophies. After a
chapter on the initial encounter with and appropriation of Western
philosophy in the late nineteenth-century, this large section is
divided into one subsection on the most well-known group of
twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, The Kyoto School, and a
second subsection on the no less significant array of Other Modern
Japanese Philosophies. Rounding out the volume is a section on
Pervasive Topics in Japanese Philosophical Thought, which covers
areas such as philosophy of language, philosophy of nature, ethics,
and aesthetics, spanning a range of schools and time periods. This
volume will be an invaluable resource specifically to students and
scholars of Japanese philosophy, as well as more generally to those
interested in Asian and comparative philosophy and East Asian
studies.
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