Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation

Contributors

241 CONTRIBUTORS Amagasaki Akira is professor of Japanese aesthetics at Gakushuin Women’s College . He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Kachō no Tsukai: Uta no Michi no Shigaku 1 (Messenger to Flowers and Birds: The Poetics of the Way of Poetry 1, 1983), Nihon no Retorikku ( Japanese Rhetoric, 1988), Kotoba to Shintai (The Body of Words, 1990), and En no Bigaku: Uta no Michi no Shigaku 2 (The Aesthetics of Links: The Poetics of the Way of Poetry 2, 1995). Haga Tōru, professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of Tokyo and at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, is currently president of Kyoto University of Art and Design. He is the author of Midaregami no Keifu: Shi to E no Hikaku Bungaku (The Genealogy of Tangled Hairs: A Comparative Literature of Poetry and Painting, 1981), Hiraga Gennai (1981), Kaiga no Ryōbun: Kindai Nihon Hikaku Bunkashi Kenkyū (The Sphere of Paintings: A Comparative Cultural Study of Modern Japan, 1984), Yosa Buson no Chiisana Sekai (The Small World of Yosa Buson, 1986), and Shi no Kuni Shijin no Kuni (Land of Poetry, Land of Poets, 1997). Hamashita Masahiro is professor of aesthetics at Kobe College. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, he has coauthored the books Rococo (1995) and Geijutsu Riron no Genzai (The Contemporary World of Art Theories, 1999). Inaga Shigemi is associate professor of comparative art history at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. A graduate from the Department of Comparative Literature of the University of Tokyo, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris. His book Kaiga no Tasogare: Eduāru Mane Botsugo no Tōsō (The Twilight of Painting: Edouard Manet’s Posthumous Struggle, 1997) was awarded the Shibusawa-Claudel Prize, the Suntory Scholarly Prize, and the Ringa Prize. He is also the author of Kaiga no Tōhō: Orientarizumu kara Japonizumu e (The Orient of Painting: From Orientalism to Japonisme, 1999). Kambayashi Tsunemichi is professor of aesthetics at the University of Osaka and the president of the Japanese Society for Aesthetics. He is the author of Gendai Geijutsu no Toporojı̄ (Topology of Contemporary Art, 1987), Doitsu Romanshugi no Sekai (The World of German Romanticism, 1990), and Geijutsu Gendai Ron (Contemporary Essays on Art, 1991). He has edited the volumes Nihon no Bi no Katachi (Forms of Japanese Beauty, 1991) and Nihon no Geijutsu Ron: Dentō to Kindai (Essays on Japanese Art: Tradition and Modernity, 2000). Thomas LaMarre is associate professor of East Asian studies at McGill University and the author of Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archeology of Sensation and Inscription (2000). John C. Maraldo is professor of philosophy at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. He is the author of Der hermeneutische Zirkel: Untersuchungen zu Schleiermacher, Dilthey und Heidegger (The Hermeneutical Circle: Investigations on Schleiermacher, Dilthey and Heidegger), coauthor (with James G. Hart) of The Piety of Thinking: Essays by Martin Heidegger with Notes and Commentary, and coeditor (with James W. Heisig) of Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School and the Question of Nationalism (1995). Michael F. Marra is professor of Japanese literature at the University of California , Los Angeles. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature (1991), Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan (1993), Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader (1999), and A History of Modern Japanese Aesthetics (2001). Mark Meli has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is presently a visiting researcher of Japanese aesthetics and poetics at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. Ōhashi Ryōsuke is professor of philosophy at the Institute of Technology in Kyoto. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich. He is the author of Ekstase und Gelassenheit: Zu Schelling und Heidegger (Ecstasy and Tranquillity: On Schelling and Heidegger, 1975), “Kire” no Kōzō: Nihonbi to Gendai Sekai (The Structure of Cuts: Japanese Beauty and the Contemporary World, 1986), Nihonteki na Mono, Yōroppateki na Mono (Things Japanese Things European, 1992), and Zettaisha no Yukue: Doitsu Kannenron to Gendai Sekai (Whereabouts of the Absolute: German Idealism and the Contemporary World, 1993). 242 Contributors Otabe Tanehisa is associate professor of aesthetics at the University of Tokyo and the author of Shōchō no Bigaku (The Aesthetics of Symbols, 1995). Graham...