Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo

Name: Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo
ISBN: 9780203959831

doi:10.4324/9780203959831

Book

Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo

ABSTRACT

In this book, Graham Mayeda demonstrates how Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo, two twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, criticize and interpret Heideggerian philosophy, articulating traditional Japanese ethics in a modern idiom.

Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|24 pages

What Is Ethics? Perspectives from East and West

chapter 3|45 pages

Space and Climate: Watsuji's Fūdo and Heideggerian Existential Spatiality

chapter 4|38 pages

Space and Ethics: Ethics as Betweenness in Watsuji's Rinrigaku

chapter 5|46 pages

Ethics and the Aesthetics of Difference: Phenomenology and Kuki's Iki no kōzō

chapter 6|35 pages

Ethics, Contingency and Temporality: Kuki's Ethics of Difference

chapter 7|8 pages

Conclusion