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Tomoo Otaka (1899-1956) studied philosophy at the University of Kyoto in the mid-1920s. The Grundlegung der Lehre vom sozialen Verband [Foundation of a theory of social association] was the product of a three-year European visit (1929-1932) in which he studied in Vienna with Hans Kelsen and in Freiburg with Edmund Husserl.
Otaka deployed Husserl's theory of knowledge to criticise the work of various contemporary German sociologists, arguing that there was a need to reframe social scientifi c research. He also criticised Kelsen's pure law theory, presenting a different view of the nature and function of law within and between nation states. He promoted an ontological science of society, but his book offered a philosophy of social science without applying that science to itself.
In his Introduction to his translation, Derek Robbins (author of The Bourdieu paradigm, 2019) suggests that assessing Otaka's text and its context contributes to an understanding of the development of Bourdieu's conceptual apparatus. In turn, the application of Bourdieu's thinking to Otaka's theory generates the refl exivity which it requires but did not offer.
The volume comprises three Parts: an Introduction, the translated text, and a collection of commentaries from four international scholars who offer invaluable insights into Otaka's work from different perspectives.
Contents
Table of Contents.
Editor's Foreword.
Part I. Introduction.
Editor's Introduction
Bourdieu's conceptual framework.
Introducing Otaka.
Introducing the Grundlegung.
Otaka through a Bourdieusian gaze.
The perspectives of the contributors.
Translator's notes.
Part II. The text.
The translated text (abridged) of Tomoo Otaka: Grundlegung der Lehre vom sozialen Verband.
Part III. Commentaries.
Francesco Campagnola: The presence and significance of Japanese scholars in Interwar Europe.
Wolfgang Schwentker: Tomoo Otaka and German Sociology.
Takemitsu Morikawa: The Crisis of Classical Modernity in Japan and Otaka's Grundlegung.
Ken Takakusa: Tomoo Otaka and Alfred Schutz: Phenomenologically Oriented Social Theories.
