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Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from Japanese philosophical traditions to investigate our relationships with other humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. It contains chapters from fifteen distinguished scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe.
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Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from Japanese philosophical traditions to investigate our relationships with other humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. It contains chapters from fifteen top scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe. The essays cover a broad range of Japanese thought, including Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, the Kyoto School, Japanese art and aesthetics, and traditional Japanese culture.
Japanese Environmental Philosophy provides timely perspectives on the ecological exigencies facing our world while also offering essential scholarship in the burgeoning field of Japanese philosophy… [for] it offers fresh perspectives on key debates. The quality of the work in this anthology is excellent. … Working through the volume the reader will engage with foundational aspects of Japanese cultural, religious, and philosophical traditions, with an eye toward contemporary environmental concerns. Given the mounting ecological crises we are experiencing throughout the world, environmental philosophy should not be confined to a specialized subfield. … Japanese Environmental Philosophy is a model of how an anthology can open up a space for productive cross-cultural environmental theory and action.
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Acknowledgements
Contributors
Foreword: Back to the Future?
Carl B. Becker
Introduction
J. Baird Callicott and James McRae
Section I: Nature in the Japanese Tradition of Thought
1. Thinking the Ambient: On the Possibility of Shizengaku (Naturing Science) Augustin Berque
2. Pure Land Ecology: Taking the Supernatural Seriously in Environmental Philosophy Leah Kalmanson
3. From Kysei to Kyei: Symbiotic Flourishing in Japanese Environmental Ethics James McRae
Section II: Human Nature and the Environment
1. Kakai And Dogen as Exemplars of Ecological Engagement Graham Parkes
2. Sensation, Betweenness, Rhythms: Watsuji’s Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Conversation with Heidegger Inutsuka Yu
3. Climate Change as Existentialist Threat: Watsuji, Greimas, and the Nature of Opposites Steve Bein
Section III: Environmental Aesthetics
1. Whitehead’s Perspectivism as a Basis for Environmental Ethics & Aesthetics:A Process View on the Japanese Concept of Nature Steve Odin
2. Japanese Gardens: The Art of Improving Nature Yuriko Saito
3. KukI Shizo and Platonism: Nature, Love, and Morality Yamauchi Tomosaburo
Section IV: Nature and Japanese Culture
1. Recollecting Local Narratives for the Land Ethic Toyoda Mitsuyo
2. Recognizing the Crucial Role of Culture in Japanese Environmental Philosophy Midori Kagawa-Fox
3. Kagura: Embodying Environmental Philosophy in the Japanese Performing Arts Goda Hiroko
Section V: Natural Disasters
1. Disaster Prevention as an Issue in Environmental Ethics Takahashi Takao
2. Non-Dualism after Fukushima? Tracing D?gen’s Teaching vis-?-vis Nuclear Disaster Masato Ishida
3. Planetary Philosophy and Social Consensus Building Kuwako Toshio
Afterword by J. Baird Callicott
Index
