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3934Social Imaginaries in DebateSocial Imaginaries 1 (1): 15-52. 2015.A collaborative article by the Editorial Collective of Social Imaginaries. Investigations into social imaginaries have burgeoned in recent years. From ‘the capitalist imaginary’ to the ‘democratic imaginary’, from the ‘ecological imaginary’ to ‘the global imaginary’ – and beyond – the social imaginaries field has expanded across disciplines and beyond the academy. The recent debates on social imaginaries and potential new imaginaries reveal a recognisable field and paradigm-in-the-making. We arg…Read more
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878World, Nothing, and Globalization in Nishida and NancyIn Leah Kalmanson James Mark Shields (ed.), Buddhist Responses to Globalization, . pp. 107-129. 2014.The “shrinking” of the globe in the last few centuries has made explicit that the world is a tense unity of many: the many worlds are forced to contend with one another. Nishida Kitarō, the founder of the Kyoto school, once stated that to be is to be implaced. We exist by partaking in “the socio-historical world.” More recently, Jean-luc Nancy has conceived of the world in terms of sense. What is striking in both is that the world emerges out of a nothing, created ex nihilo—the phrase stripp…Read more
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21Guest EditorialVera Lex 7 (1/2): 1-6. 2006.Editorial to accompany the entire issue on natural law and Asian philosophy which I guest edited.
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375Emptiness and experience: Pure and impureDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 4 (1): 57-76. 2004.This paper discusses the idea of "pure experience" within the context of the Buddhist tradition and in connection with the notions of emptiness and dependent origination via a reading of Dale Wright's reading of 'Huangbo' in his 'Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism'. The purpose is to appropriate Wright's text in order to engender a response to Steven Katz's contextualist-constructivist thesis that there are no "pure" (i.e., unmediated) experiences. In light of the Mahayana claim that ever…Read more
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420The "Place of Nothing" in Nishida as Chiasma and ChōraDiaphany 1 (1): 203-240. 2015.The paper will explicate the Sache or matter of the dialectic of the founder of Kyoto School philosophy, Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945), from the standpoint of his mature thought, especially from the 1930s and 40s. Rather than providing a simple exposition of his thought I will engage in a creative reading of his concept of basho (place) in terms of chiasma and chōra, or a chiasmatic chōra. I argue that Nishida’s appropriation of nineteenth century German, especially Hegelian, terminology was inad…Read more
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