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The very title of this collection of essays, “Phenomenology in Japan” signals an effort that might well be called an attempt at cross cultural communication or cultural interchange. It might evoke curiosity or interest: “Phenomenology in Japan!” (as if to say, “how is phenomenology being done in Japan?” or “let’s see what the Japanese have to say about phenomenology!”); or it can be met with surprise: “Phenomenology, in Japan?” (as if to inquire, “are philosophers and social scientists really occupied with phenomenology in Japan?” or “can one really speak of a ‘phenomenological movement’ in Japan?”).
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I am indebted to A.R. Luther, A Dialectics of Finite Existence: A Study of Nishida Kitaro’s Buddhist Philosophy of Emptiness (unpublished manuscript). See also Tadashi Ogawa, “Kitaro Nishida,” in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed., Embree, et al. ( Boston: Kluwer, 1997 ), 490–494.
See the “Preface” to Japanese and Western Phenomenology,eds., Blosser, Shimomissé, Embree, and Kojima (Boston: Kluwer, 1993). See also Hiroshi Kojima, “Japan,” in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology,ed., Embree, et al. (Boston: Kluwer, 1997), 367–371, and Hisashi Nasu “Sociology in Japan,” in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology,ed., Embree, et al. (Boston: Kluwer, 1997), 655–659.
Ed., Yoshihiro Nitta ( Freiburg: Alber, 1984 ).
Ed., Hiroshi Kojima, 1989.
See note 2 above.
Human Studies, eds., G. Psathas and K. Okunda, Vol. 15, No. 1 (1992).
See Tani’s contribution in this collection, “Inquiry into the I, Disclosedness, and Self-Consciousness: Husserl, Heidegger, Nishida”
See Max Scheler, Vom Ewigen im Menschen, GW Vol. 5 (Bern: Francke, 1954), esp., 198–210.
For a more detailed exposition of the generative relation between home and alien, see my Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995), esp. Section 4.
Regarding the liminality of experience, see Anthony Steinbock, “Limit Phenomena and the Liminality of Experience.” Alter: revue de phénoménologie, No. 5 (1998).
Concerning the aforementioned “point,” see Luther, A Dialectics of Finite Existence.
On a final note of thanks, I would like to express my gratitude to Bob Scharff for encouraging me in this editorial endeavor.
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Steinbock, A.J. (1998). Introduction: Phenomenology in Japan. In: Steinbock, A.J. (eds) Phenomenology in Japan. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2602-3_1
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