In this Book
- Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Hermeneutics and Japan
- 1. Method, Hermeneutics, Truth
- pp. 9-16
- 2. Poetics of Intransitivity
- pp. 17-24
- Japan's Aesthetic Hermeneutics
- 10. Ōgai, Schelling, and Aesthetics
- pp. 109-114
- Japan's Literary Hermeneutics
- 18. Saitō Mokichi’s Poetics of Shasei
- pp. 206-214
- Contributors
- pp. 241-244