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Imagination, Temporality, and Spatiality in Heidegger's Interpretation of KantDissertation, New School for Social Research. 1999.This dissertation looks at Heidegger's phenomenological interpretation of the notion of imagination in Kant's epistemology. Heidegger in his early works on Kant broadens Kant's meaning of imagination to mean something more than a cognitive or mental faculty engaged in the formation of intuition or the synthesis of sensible intuitions and conceptual categories for the sake of cognition. For Kant imagination's activity involves the formation or determination of time, so that concepts can be applie…Read more
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Imagining and Reimagining Imagination via the Ontology of Imagination in Miki KiyoshiInternational Journal of Social Imaginaries 2 (2): 239-272. 2023.The paper explicates what the World War 2 era Japanese philosopher, Miki Kiyoshi, of the Kyoto School, called the logic of imagination and of forms as an ontology. I understand this ontology as ultimately an “anontology”, where novelty and creativity are predicated upon the pathos of singularity and contingency that Miki calls “the nothing” (mu). Its productive function that is technological vis-à-vis the environment involves an embodied praxis that Miki, borrowing the terms of his mentor, Nishi…Read more
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The Symposium on Overcoming Modernity and Discourse in Wartime JapanHistorical Sociology: A Journal of Historical Social Sciences 2021 (2): 83-104. 2021.Abstract: The symposium on overcoming modernity (kindai no chokoku) that took place in Tokyo in 1942 has been much commented upon, but later critics have tended to over-emphasize the wartime political context and the ideological connection to Japanese ultra-nationalism. Closer examination shows that the background and the actual content of the discussion were more complicated. The idea of overcoming modernity had already appeared in debates among Japanese intellectuals before the war, and was al…Read more
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