Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation Reviews

Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation





Japanese Hermeneutics provides a forum for the most current international debates on the role played by interpretative models in the articulation of cultural discourses on Japan. It presents the thinking of esteemed Western philosophers, aestheticians, and art and literary historians, and introduces to English-reading audiences some of Japan's most distinguished scholars, whose work has received limited or no exposure in the United States.

In the first part, "Hermeneutics and Japan," contributors examine the difficulties inherent in articulating "otherness" without falling into the trap of essentialization and while relying on Western epistemology for explanation and interpretation. In the second part, "Japan's Aesthetic Hermeneutics," they explore the role of aesthetics in shaping discourses on art and nature in Japan. The essays in the final section of the book, "Japan's Literary Hermeneutics," rethink the notion of "Japanese literature" in light of recent findings on the ideological implications of canon formations and transformations within Japan's prominent literary circles.

The interdisciplinary nature of Japanese Hermeneutics is the first step toward the creation of a "history of Japanese hermeneutics," which to this day remains to be written. Uniformly rich, the essays in this volume will interest and enlighten students and scholars of Japanese philosophy, art history, literature, and history, as well as comparative philosophers and humanists.









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