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7Flowers of Dim-Sightedness: Dōgen’s Mystical ‘Negative Ocularcentrism’In Ralf Müller & George Wrisley (eds.), Dōgen’s Texts: Manifesting Religion and/as Philosophy?, Springer Verlag. pp. 165-188. 2023.So numerous are the aspects of Dōgen’s writings that reflect the structures of vision that we might consider his philosophy “ocularcentric”. While recent scholarship scrutinizes both Greek and Mahāyāna forms of ocularcentrism, I argue that the hazards reside not in the prioritization of sight to the neglect of other senses, but in the latent positivism visual metaphor tends to, but need not, reinforce. I cast Dōgen as a “negative ocularcentrist” for his construing vision according to the Mahāyān…Read more
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33Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: "Interexpression" As Motor-Perceptual FaithPhilosophy East and West 67 (3): 710-737. 2017.Both Nishida Kitarō and Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote extensively about artistic expression in their early works, yet in the last period of their careers that consideration is put mostly aside as they engage more directly with abstract ontological concerns. As this happens, a curiously overlooked concept becomes prominent in their writings, namely “faith.” While Merleau-Ponty’s is a “perceptual faith”, and Nishida’s is, broadly speaking, a religious faith, neither is strictly secular nor spiritual…Read more
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7Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: artistic expression as motor-perceptual faithState University of New York Press. 2019.In Merleau-Ponty and Nishida, Adam Loughnane initiates a dialogue between two of the twentieth century's most important phenomenologists from the Eastern and Western philosophical worlds. Loughnane guides the reader through the complexities and innovations of Nishida's and Merleau-Ponty's theories of artistic expression and their rarely explored concepts of faith. The intricacies of both philosophers' views are illuminated by analyses of artists, including Cézanne, Sesshū, Rodin, Hasegawa, and…Read more
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19Nguyen, A. Minh, ed., New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics: New York: Lexington Books, 2017, 448 + xxviii pagesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 21 (1): 155-160. 2022.
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36The Birth of Fire, Indescribable Light, and the Limits of Philosophy’s Violence: Nāgārjuna and Plato Seeing and Speaking of NothingComparative and Continental Philosophy 12 (3): 211-226. 2020.This study places Nāgārjuna and Plato in dialogue regarding how both seek to orient philosophy in the face of indeterminacy observed at the elemental level of existence, specifically, the indeterminacy of fire’s light. Looking to the elemental within Chōra and Śūnyatā, a directive becomes discernible for calibrating philosophy to this indeterminacy, and crucial limitations are disclosed, which expand philosophy by enabling a productive relation to the non-philosophical. What emerges are directiv…Read more
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32Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience, and Zen (edited book)Springer. 2022.This book presents the first collection of essays on the philosophy of Ueda Shizuteru in a Western language. Ueda, the last living member of the Kyoto school, has fostered the East-West dialogue in all his works and has helped to open up the Western image of philosophy by engaging the Zen tradition. The book reflects this particular trait of Ueda’s philosophy, but it also covers all thematic fields of his writings. Contributions from both young and established scholars and experts from Japan, Eu…Read more
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22Expression and Bodily Faith in Natalie Heller’s First ImpressionsPerformance Philosophy 2 (1): 115-129. 2016.In this essay I place choreographer Natalie Heller in dialogue with Merleau-Ponty on issues of motor-perception, expression and bodily faith. I analyze her new work First Impressions to demonstrate how she responds to a similar impulse that drove Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, particularly in his last writing, The Visible and the Invisible. Both Heller and Merleau-Ponty seek to go beyond the representational understanding of motion and perception in order to articulate and experiment with a type…Read more
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25Performing Philosophy in Asian TraditionsPerformance Philosophy 1 (1): 133-147. 2015.Performing Philosophy in Asian Traditions.
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2Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: "Interexpression" as Motor-Perceptual FaithPhilosophy East and West 67 (3): 710-737. 2017.This essay places Nishida Kitarō in dialogue with Maurice Merleau-Ponty regarding motor-perceptual aspects underlying their theories of artistic expression. The analysis begins by comparing their interpretations of negation as articulated in their later works and seeks to understand their poetic renderings of artistic practice as proposing a mutual and reciprocal form of negation. By analyzing their conceptions of negation as implicit to their depictions of artistic expression, this essay looks …Read more
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25Crossing Paths with Maraldo's NishidaJournal of World Philosophies 3 (2): 117-122. 2018.John Maraldo’s Crossing Paths with Nishida assembles the life’s work of one of the leading voices in Nishida scholarship. Spanning over three decades, this brilliant collection of essays charts the path not just of Nishida’s philosophy, but also the path of deep inquiry of one of his most incisive commentators. In thirteen insightful essays, each reprinted with a new introduction by the author, Maraldo delves into the most critical issues in Nishida scholarship while rendering his philosophy ger…Read more
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395Nishida and Merleau-Ponty: Art, “Depth,” and “Seeing without a Seer”European Journal of Japanese Philosophy 1 47-74. 2016.This paper sets Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Nishida Kitarō in dialogue and explore the interpretations of artistic expression, which inform their similar phenomenological accounts of perception. I discuss how both philosophers look to artistic practice to reveal multi-perspectival aspects of vision. They do so, I argue, by going beyond a “positivist” representational under-standing of perception and by including negative aspects of visual experience as constitutive of vision. Following this accoun…Read more
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36The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking (review)Philosophy East and West 62 (3): 433-436. 2012.
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