Description
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.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsContributorsForeword: Back to the Future? Carl B. BeckerIntroduction J. Baird Callicott and James McRaeSection I: Nature in the Japanese Tradition of Thought1. Thinking the Ambient: On the Possibility of Shizengaku (Naturing Science) Augustin Berque2. Pure Land Ecology: Taking the Supernatural Seriously in Environmental Philosophy Leah Kalmanson3. From Kyosei to Kyoei: Symbiotic Flourishing in Japanese Environmental Ethics James McRaeSection II: Human Nature and the Environment4. Kukai and Dogen as Exemplars of Ecological Engagement Graham Parkes5. Sensation, Betweenness, Rhythms: Watsuji's Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Conversation with Heidegger INUTSUKA Yu6. Climate Change as Existentialist Threat: Watsuji, Greimas, and the Nature of Opposites Steve BeinSection III: Environmental Aesthetics7. Whitehead's Perspectivism as a Basis for Environmental Ethics & Aesthetics:A Process View on the Japanese Concept of Nature Steve Odin8. Japanese Gardens: The Art of Improving Nature Yuriko Saito9. Kuki Shuzo and Platonism: Nature, Love, and Morality YAMAUCHI TomosaburoSection IV: Nature and Japanese Culture10. Recollecting Local Narratives for the Land Ethic TOYODA Mitsuyo11. Recognizing the Crucial Role of Culture in Japanese Environmental Philosophy Midori Kagawa-Fox12. Kagura: Embodying Environmental Philosophy in the Japanese Performing Arts GODA HirokoSection V: Natural Disasters1. Disaster Prevention as an Issue in Environmental Ethics TAKAHASHI Takao2. Non-Dualism after Fukushima? Tracing Dogen's Teaching vis-à-vis Nuclear Disaster Masato Ishida3. Planetary Philosophy and Social Consensus Building KUWAKO ToshioAfterword J. Baird CallicottIndex
