Intercultural Phenomenology: Playing with Reality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350298286)

Vendor: Yuko Ishihara
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Format: Paperback
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Intercultural Phenomenology: Playing with Reality

$24.95

Intercultural Phenomenology: Playing with Reality

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Intercultural Phenomenology explores the nature of reality by engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue between two of the most influential philosophical traditions of the 20th century.

Drawing on ideas from phenomenology, Japanese philosophy and Zen Buddhism, it follows the philosophers who changed their perception of the world by choosing to suspend judgement. Guided by this philosophical method known as the "epoché", or suspension of judgment in ancient Greek, it is an introduction to the philosophy and practice of letting objects in the world speak for themselves.

Inspired by Nishida Kitaro's insight that true reality is beyond the subject--object duality, the book uses a series of examples and exercises to explore the background to Husserl's idea of the phenomenological epoché, Hans--Georg Gadamer's emphasis on play in human understanding and the haiku poet Matsuo Basho's call for a new level of freedom. This practice-oriented approach moves beyond the traditional East-West divide. It connects various traditions, old and new, contemplative and theoretical, and explains why Japanese philosophy and phenomenology can enrich the quality of our lived experience.

Author: Yuko Ishihara,Steven A. Tainer
ISBN-10: 135029828X
ISBN-13: 9781350298286
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2024
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
By Yuko Ishihara
By Yuko Ishihara
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Yuko Ishihara is Associate Professor at the College of Global Liberal Arts at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. She specializes in Kyoto School philosophy and classical phenomenology. Her research includes a focus on the topic of play and, specifically, how modern philosophers have turned to the notion of play to overcome the metaphysics of subjectivity.

Steven A. Tainer has studied Asian contemplative traditions intensively since 1970 with Tibetan, Chinese and Korean masters. After practicing for decades in both mountain retreats and ordinary life circumstances, he began teaching Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian fundamentals to private groups and at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery in Berkeley California, USA.

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