Confronting Capital and Empire

Viren Murthy, Ph.D. (2007), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Transnational Asian History in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published essays on Chinese and Japanese intellectual history and is author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (Brill, 2011). He is currently working on a project tentatively entitled Pan-Asianism and the Conundrums of Postcolonial Modernity.Fabian Schäfer, Ph.D. (2008), Leipzig University, is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He has published various articles and books, including Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology: Theories on the Press and its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918–1937 (Brill, 2012), and The Medium as Mediation: The Media and Media Theory in Japan (in German) (Springer, 2017).Max Ward, Ph.D. (2011), New York University, is Assistant Professor of Japanese History at Middlebury College. He has published on a variety of topics related to Japan and social theory, and is currently completing a manuscript on the rehabilitation of political criminals in the interwar Japanese Empire.

• AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Studying the Kyoto School: Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Marx’s Critique of ModernityViren Murthy, Fabian Schäfer and Max WardPart 1: The Kyoto School and the Problem of Philosophy, History, and Politics1 Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World HistoryHarry HarootunianPart 2: Rethinking Nishida Kitarō with Marx2 The Labor Process and the Genesis of Historical Time: With Marx, With NishidaWilliam Haver3 Commodity Fetishism and the Fetishism of Nothingness: On the Problem of Inversion in Marx and NishidaElena Louisa Lange4 Nishida Kitarō and the Antinomies of Bourgeois PhilosophyChristian UhlPart 3: Tanabe Hajime, Imperialism, and Capitalism5 Ethnicity and Species: On the Philosophy of the Multiethnic State and Japanese ImperialismNaoki Sakai6 Aleatory DialecticTakeshi Kimoto7 Tanabe Hajime as Storyteller: Or, Reading Philosophy as Metanoetics as NarrativeMax WardPart 4: The Legacies of the Kyoto School Philosophy8 The Subjective Drive of Capital: Kakehashi Akihide’s Phenomenology of MatterGavin Walker9 Umemoto Katsumi, Subjective Nothingness, and the Critique of Civil SocietyViren Murthy10 The “Logic of Committee” and the Newspaper Doyōbi (Saturday): Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Political PraxisAaron S. Moore11 Yanagida Kenjūrō: A Religious Seeker of MarxismSatofumi Kawamura12 A Secret History: Tosaka Jun and the Kyoto SchoolsKatsuhiko Endo Index

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