Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2002

Japanese Hermeneutics

Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation

Edited by: Michael F. Marra

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824863104

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Japanese Hermeneutics provides a forum for the most current international debates on the role played by interpretative models in the articulation of cultural discourses on Japan. It presents the thinking of esteemed Western philosophers, aestheticians, and art and literary historians, and introduces to English-reading audiences some of Japan's most distinguished scholars, whose work has received limited or no exposure in the United States.

In the first part, "Hermeneutics and Japan," contributors examine the difficulties inherent in articulating "otherness" without falling into the trap of essentialization and while relying on Western epistemology for explanation and interpretation. In the second part, "Japan's Aesthetic Hermeneutics," they explore the role of aesthetics in shaping discourses on art and nature in Japan. The essays in the final section of the book, "Japan's Literary Hermeneutics," rethink the notion of "Japanese literature" in light of recent findings on the ideological implications of canon formations and transformations within Japan's prominent literary circles.

Contributors: Amagasaki Akira, Haga Toru, Hamashita Masahiro, Inaga Shigemi, Kambayashi Tsunemichi, Thomas LaMarre, John C. Maraldo, Michael F. Marra, Mark Meli, Ohashi Ryosuke, Otabe Tanehisa, Graham Parkes, J. Thomas Rimer, Sasaki Ken'ichi, Haruo Shirane, Suzuki Sadami, Stefan Tanaka, Gianni Vattimo.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Michael F. Marra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
HERMENEUTICS AND JAPAN
1. Method, Hermeneutics, Truth Gianni Vattimo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Poetics of Intransitivity Sasaki Ken’ichi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. The Hermeneutic Approach to Japanese Modernity: “Art-Way,” “Iki,” and “Cut-Continuance” Ōhashi Ryōsuke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
4. Frame and Link: A Philosophy of Japanese Composition Amagasaki Akira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
5. The Eloquent Stillness of Stone: Rock in the Dry Landscape Garden Graham Parkes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
6. Motoori Norinaga’s Hermeneutic of Mono no Aware: The Link between Ideal and Tradition Mark Meli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
7. Between Individual and Communal, Subject and Object, Self and Other: Mediating Watsuji Tetsurō’s Hermeneutics John C. Maraldo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
JAPAN’S AESTHETIC HERMENEUTICS
8. Nishi Amane on Aesthetics: A Japanese Version of Utilitarian Aesthetics Hamashita Masahiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
9. Hegel in Tokyo: Ernest Fenollosa and His 1882 Lecture on the Truth of Art J. Thomas Rimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
10. Ōgai, Schelling, and Aesthetics Kambayashi Tsunemichi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
11. Cognitive Gaps in the Recognition of Masters and Masterpieces in the Formative Years of Japanese Art History, 1880–1900: Historiography in Conflict Inaga Shigemi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
12. Nature—the Naturalization of Experience as National Stefan Tanaka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
13. Coincidentia Oppositorum:Ōnishi Yoshinori’s Greek Genealogies of Japan Michael F. Marra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
14. Representations of “Japaneseness” in Modern Japanese Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Critique of Comparative Reason Otabe Tanehisa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
JAPAN’S LITERARY HERMENEUTICS
15. Constructing “Japanese Literature”: Global and Ethnic Nationalism Haruo Shirane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
16. What Is Bungaku? The Reformulation of the Concept of “Literature” in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Suzuki Sadami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
17. Primitive Vision: Heidegger’s Hermeneutics and Man’yōshū Thomas LaMarre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
18. Saitō Mokichi’s Poetics of Shasei Haga Tōru Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264

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Published: February 28, 2002
ISBN: 9780824863104