This volume reflects on the themes and topics presented in Edmund Husserls articles published in the popular Japanese magazine Kaizo in 1923. It addresses the cosmopolitan nature of Husserls work, as well as the enduring appeal of Husserls cultural phenomenology for todays globalized age.
This volume reflects on the themes and topics presented in Edmund Husserls articles published in the popular Japanese magazine Kaizo in 1923. It addresses the cosmopolitan nature of Husserls work, as well as the enduring appeal of Husserls cultural phenomenology for todays globalized age.
The notions of crisis and renewal are clearly central to the thought of Husserl in his outreach to Japanese readers in his Kaizo articles. For Husserl, something critical from the European past had to be renewed to stop the catastrophe embodied in the Great War and its aftermath from getting worse. This volume explores Husserls earliest work on European Krisis, his unexpected interest in history, as well as his overlooked contributions on religion, politics, and the ethics of renewal. The chapters are divided into four main parts. Part 1 addresses general issues in Husserl's cultural phenomenology with special attention paid to topics pursued in the Kaizo. Part 2 provides new work on Husserl and global phenomenology. These chapters consider Husserlian engagements with Japanese and other East Asian philosophical and religious traditions, as well as the relevance of Husserls work for the global South, from the Caribbean to Africa. The volume includes chapters in Parts 1 and 2 that attempt to assay Husserls relationship to the European other as encountered in Jewish thought. In Part 3, there is a review of the publication of the Kaizo work in addition to an early history of Husserlian phenomenology in Japan. The editors reproduce the content of the first Kaizo article in the Appendix, Part 4, supplying new reader-friendly English and Japanese translations.
Cosmopolitan Husserl will appeal to researchers and graduate students as well as advanced undergraduate students and the general public who are interested in Husserl, phenomenology, comparative philosophy, and religious studies.
Editors Introduction Part 1: Foundations in Cultural Phenomenology
1.
The Unity of a Spiritual Life: Husserl on Cultural Phenomenology
2. One
World: Husserl, Japan, and the Ethics of Renewal
3. Husserl and Scheler on
the Possibility of a Cultural Renewal
4. On the Way to Phenomenology from
Anthropology: Some Remarks on the Relation between Husserls Ethical Thought
and Anthropology
5. Husserls Intercultural Phenomenology: Resituating
Europe, Reason, and the Lifeworld Part 2: Husserl and Global Phenomenology
6.
Husserl and Cohen on the Other
7. Husserl, Global Coloniality, and the World
8. Creolizing Theory as Rigorous Science
9. Critical Phenomenology and the
Limits of Critical Buddhism: Edmund Husserls Self-Reflective Strategies
10.
To Be or To Have the Body: Husserl's Intersubjectivity and Itda in Korean
11.
The Presence of the Fourth: A Phenomenology of the Living World Part 3: The
Making of the Kaiz Articles
12. The Reception of Husserls Kaiz
Contributions in the Development of the Japanese Phenomenology Part 4:
Appendix Kaiz (1923): Renewal: Problem and Method The Original Kaiz
Publication The Original Kaiz German Publication Modernized Japanese Text
Original German Text Renewal: Problem and Method. A New Translation
Curtis Hutt is Professor of Religious Studies and Founding Executive Director of the Goldstein Center for Human Rights (2017-2023) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has authored and co-edited multiple books including John Dewey on the Ethics of Historical Belief (2013) and Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics (2018).
Halla Kim, Ph.D., is professor and chair of philosophy at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea. His books include Kant and the Foundations of Morality (2015) and he also published three anthologies, Transcendental Inquiry: Its Origin, Method, and Critiques (2016) among others.
