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Japanese philosophers were attracted to phenomenology from early on. Many scholars read Ideen I soon after its publication and younger ones traveled to Germany to study under Husserl, and subsequently Heidegger. These and others built the foundation for a robust Japanese phenomenological tradition that focuses on extensive text critique on one hand, and on links with Asian thought on the other. The century-long encounter with phenomenology has resulted in numerous translations of Husserl’s works, in abundant studies reaching back to the 1920s, and in hundreds of scholars today who focus on phenomenology as a major area of philosophical research.
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- 1.
Tokyo: Daiichi Shobo, 1931. Reprinted in TAKAHASHI Satomi, Zentaisei no Genshogaku (Kyoto: Toeisha, 2001).
- 2.
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1929. ITO Kichinosuke, MIYAMOTO Wakichi, MUTAI Risaku and OTAKA Tomoo also visited Husserl during this period.
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Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag.
- 4.
Discussions about “crisis” were also widespread among readers of Heidegger, who had continued to be relatively popular through the war years. After interest in Sartre declined, interest in Heidegger became stronger—particularly because of the renewed controversy regarding his complicity with Nazism. This led to interest in Levinas and Derrida, as was no doubt the case elsewhere.
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Belgrade, 1936.
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NISHIDA Kitaro, Collected Works, vol. 19 (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2006).
- 7.
Ibid., 226 (letter dated January 1, 1914).
- 8.
Ibid., 240 (letter dated August 5, 1914).
- 9.
Ibid., 259–60 (letter dated July 12, 1915).
- 10.
Ibid., 261.
- 11.
NISHIDA Kitaro, Collected Works, vol. 12 (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2004), 64.
- 12.
NISHIDA Kitaro, Collected Works, vol. 23, p. 176, in a letter to SAWAGATA Hisataka, dated January 13, 1944.
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Published in vol. 36 of the journal Shiso (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1924); reprinted in TANABE Hajime, Collected Works, vol. 4 (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1963).
- 14.
Ibid., 19 ff.
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Ibid., 24.
- 16.
Reprinted in TANABE Hajime, Collected Works, vol. 4 (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1963).
- 17.
Ibid., 39.
- 18.
TANABE Hajime, Collected Works, vol. 8 (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1964).
- 19.
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1930. Reprinted in KUKI Shuzo, Collected Works, vol. 1 (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2011).
- 20.
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1935. Reprinted in KUKI Shuzo, Collected Works, vol. 2 (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2011).
- 21.
Reprinted in earlier edition of Collected Works, vol. 9 (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1981).
- 22.
Ibid., 397.
- 23.
Ibid., 400.
- 24.
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1929.
- 25.
Ibid., vi.
- 26.
Ibid., 2–3.
- 27.
Ibid., vi.
- 28.
Ibid.
- 29.
Tokyo: Daiichi Shobo, 1931. Reprinted in TAKAHASHI Satomi, Zentaisei no Genshogaku (Kyoto: Toeisha, 2001).
- 30.
Ibid., 9.
- 31.
Ibid., 47 ff.
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This refers to the portrayal in Husseru no koto (“About Husserl”), cited at the head of this paper (cf. Note 1).
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Tokyo: Kobushi Shobo, 1997.
- 34.
Ibid., 56.
- 35.
Ibid., 60.
- 36.
Ibid., 73.
- 37.
NITTA Yoshihiro et al., The Phenomenology of Mediation (Tokyo: Seidosha, 2002).
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Toru, T. (2013). Reading and Rereading the Ideen in Japan. In: Embree, L., Nenon, T. (eds) Husserl’s Ideen. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5213-9_2
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