Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations

[...] I found the essays to be well researched and replete with helpful details and information. Taking Heidegger's discussion of Kuki's aesthetics in his Dialogue on Language as a starting point, Marra applies Kuki's discussion of contingency to the question of otherness in race or c...

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Published in:Philosophy East and West 2012, Vol.62 (2), p.297-300
Main Author: Krummel, John W. M.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Chinese
Christianity
Comparative analysis
Essays
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Islamism
Kuki Shuzo
Mysticism
Otherness
Philosophical thought
Philosophy
Postmodernism
Religion
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Summary:[...] I found the essays to be well researched and replete with helpful details and information. Taking Heidegger's discussion of Kuki's aesthetics in his Dialogue on Language as a starting point, Marra applies Kuki's discussion of contingency to the question of otherness in race or culture that Kuki himself faced during his stay in Europe, and contrasts this with Heidegger's discussion of otherness in his reading of Hölderlin's "The Ister." Bernier's explication provokes questions in my mind as to how this might compare with the ancient Chinese Confucian state, the modern Fascist and Nazi states, or even some of the seemingly less pernicious contemporary forms of civic religion.
ISSN:0031-8221
1529-1898
1529-1898
DOI:10.1353/pew.2012.0020