Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy

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Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction: Studying the Kyoto School: Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Marx’s Critique of Modernity

Part 1: The Kyoto School and the Problem of Philosophy, History, and Politics

1 Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History

Part 2: Rethinking Nishida Kitarō with Marx

2 The Labor Process and the Genesis of Historical Time With Marx, With Nishida

3 Commodity Fetishism and the Fetishism of Nothingness: On the Problem of Inversion in Marx and Nishida

4 Nishida Kitarō and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Philosophy

Part 3: Tanabe Hajime, Imperialism, and Capitalism

5 Ethnicity and Species: On the Philosophy of the Multiethnic State and Japanese Imperialism

6 Aleatory Dialectic

7 Tanabe Hajime as Storyteller: Or, Reading Philosophy as Metanoetics as Narrative

Part 4: The Legacies of Kyoto School Philosophy

8 The Subjective Drive of Capital: Kakehashi Akihide’s Phenomenology of Matter

9 Umemoto Katsumi, Subjective Nothingness, and the Critique of Civil Society

10 The “Logic of Committee” and the Newspaper Doyōbi (Saturday): Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Political Praxis

11 Yanagida Kenjūrō: A Religious Seeker of Marxism

12 A Secret History: Tosaka Jun and the Kyoto Schools

Index