Contents

 

 

Preface

 

Introduction: Space and the Virtual: An East-West Comparison

 

 

1   The Gamelike and Dreamlike Structures of Nishida Kitarô’s Pure Experience

 

 

2   Iki, Style, Trace: Kuki Shûzô and the Spirit of Hermeneutics

 

 

3   Contingency and the ‘Time of the Dream’: Kuki Shûzô and French Prewar Philosophy

 

 

4   The ‘I’ and the ‘Thou’: A Dialogue between Nishida Kitarô and Mikhail Bakhtin

 

 

5   Ma, Basho, Aida: Three Japanese Concepts of Space at the Age of Globalization (download)

 

 

6   Nishida Kitarô and the Politics of the Virtual Body

 

 

7   Nishida and Wittgenstein: From Pre-conceptual Experience to Lebensform

 

 

Postface: “Predicative Logic” and Virtual Stylistics

 

 

Appendix:

 

Eight Western Paradigms of Onreiric Spatial Perception:

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Chôraic Space, Aporiatic Space, Phronetic Space,

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Chronotopic Space, Mnemetic Space, Ur-Space,

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Dandyist Space, Unheimlicher Space

 

 

Bibliography

 

 

Index