Aesthetics / Philosophy of Art and Literature

• Imagining Reality in [Virginia Woolf’s] 'To the Lighthouse' (1982)

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• Viewing Paintings, Watching Films (1984)

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• Ways of Japanese Thinking (1995)

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• The Role of Rock in the Japanese Dry Landscape Garden (2000)

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• Japanese Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005/2011)

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• Thinking Rocks, Living Stones: Reflections on Chinese Lithophilia (2005)

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• The Symphonic Structure of Nietzsche’s 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' (2008/2022)

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• Thinking like a Stone: Learning from the Zen Rock Garden (2008)

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• Thinking Images: Doing Philosophy in Film and Video (2009)

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• Savoring Tastes: Appreciating Food in Japan (2017)

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• The Role of Stone in the Chinese Rock Garden (2020)

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Buddhist and Zen Philosophy

• The Transmutation of Emotion in Rinzai Zen and Nietzsche (1990)

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• Nietzsche and Zen Master Hakuin on the Roles of Emotion and Passion (1995)

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• The Role of Rock in the Japanese Dry Landscape Garden (2000)

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• Nietzsche and Early Buddhism [and an exchange with Robert G. Morrison] (2000)

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• Nature and the Human 'Redivinized: Mahāyāna Buddhist Themes in 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ (2000)

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• Dōgen’s 'Mountains and Waters as Sūtras (Sansui-kyō)’ (2009)

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• Body-Mind and Buddha-Nature: Dōgen’s Deeper Ecology (2010)

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• Nuclear Power after Fukushima 2011: Promethean and Buddhist Perspectives (2012)

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• Awe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies (2012)

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• Kūkai and Dōgen as Exemplars of Ecological Engagement (2013)

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• An Exchange with Bret W. Davis on Nietzsche and Zen (2015)

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• Zen Master Dōgen’s 'Shushōgi', para. 29 (2016)

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Comparative / Intercultural Philosophy

(Actually, most of the essays fall under this heading ...)

• 'Heidegger and Asian Thought' – Introduction (Reflections on comparative philosophy) (1987)

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• Facing the Masks: Persona and Self in Nietzsche, Rilke, and Mishima (1987)

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• Between Nationalism and Nomadism: Wondering about the Languages of Philosophy (1991)

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• The Orientation of the Nietzschean Text [Nietzsche and East-Asian Thought] (1991)

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• Facing the Self with Masks: Perspectives on the Personal from Nietzsche and the Japanese (1996)

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• Nietzsche and East Asian Thought: Influences, Impacts, and Resonances (1996)

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• Death and Detachment: Montaigne, Zen, Heidegger and the Rest (1998)

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• Confucian and Daoist, Stoic and Epicurean: Some Parallels in Ways of Living (2019)

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Daoist Thinking

• The Wandering Dance: 'Chuang Tzu' and 'Zarathustra' (1983)

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• Thoughts on the Way: 'Being and Time' via Laozi and Zhuangzi (1987/2022)

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• Human/Nature in Nietzsche and Taoism (1989)

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• Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Sense of Place (2003)

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• Lao-Zhuang and Heidegger on Nature and Technology (2003/2012)

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• Thinking Rocks, Living Stones: Reflections on Chinese Lithophilia (2005)

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• Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on the Human and Nature (2013)

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• The Art of Rulership between Heaven and Earth (2018)

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• In the Light of Heaven before Sunrise: Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on Transperspectival Experience (2020)

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Ecological / Environmental Philosophy

• 'Floods of Life' around 'Granite of Fate': Emerson and Nietzsche as Thinkers of Nature (1997)

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• Staying Loyal to the Earth: Nietzsche as an Ecological Thinker (1998)

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• Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Sense of Place (2003)

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• Nietzsche's Environmental Philosophy: A Trans-European Perspective (2005)

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• The Awareness of Rock: East-Asian understandings and implications (2009)

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• From Earth's Veins to the Body's Meridians: Classical Chinese Views on Environment and Health (2010)

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• The Politics of Global Warming (1): Climate Science and Scepticism (2013)

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• The Politics of Global Warming (2): Two Obstacles to Circumvent (2013)

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• Kūkai and Dōgen as Exemplars of Ecological Engagement (2013)

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• Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on the Human and Nature (2013)

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• Renatured Humans on a Sacred Earth: The Power of Nietzsche's Ecological Thinking (2018/2022)

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• Open Letter to President Xi Jinping on the Climate Crisis (2022)

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Martin Heidegger

• 'Heidegger and Asian Thought' – Introduction (Reflections on comparative philosophy) (1987)

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• Thoughts on the Way: 'Being and Time' via Laozi and Zhuangzi (1987/2022)

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• (Heidegger and Asian Thought) Afterwords — Language (1987)

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• Rising Sun over Black Forest: Heidegger's Japanese Connections (1996)

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• Heidegger and Japanese Fascism: An Unsubstantiated Connection (2011)

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• Lao-Zhuang and Heidegger on Nature and Technology (2003/2012)

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• Heidegger and Nishitani on Nature and Technology (2013)

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Kyoto School

• Nietzsche and Nishitani on the Self through Time (1984)

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• Nishitani Keiji - Citizen of the Cosmos (1992)

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• Nietzsche and Nishitani on the Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (1993)

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• The Putative Fascism of the Kyoto School (1997)

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• Review of Leslie Pincus, 'Authenticating Culture' (1997)

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• Nietzsche and Nishitani on Nihilism and Tradition (1997)

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• The Definite Internationalism of the Kyoto School (2008)

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• Heidegger and Japanese Fascism: An Unsubstantiated Connection (2011)

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• Heidegger and Nishitani on Nature and Technology (2013)

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• Nishitani Keiji: Practicing Philosophy as a Matter of Life and Death (2015/2020)

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Friedrich Nietzsche

• The Overflowing Soul: Images of Transformation in Nietzsche's 'Zarathustra' (1983)

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• The Wandering Dance: Chuang-tzu and Zarathustra (1983)

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• Nietzsche and Nishitani on the Self through Time (1984)

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• A Cast of Many: Nietzsche and depth-psychological pluralism (1989)

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• Human/Nature in Nietzsche and Taoism (1989)

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• The Transmutation of Emotion in Rinzai Zen and Nietzsche (1990)

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• Ordering the Psyche Polytic: Choices of Inner Regime for Plato and Nietzsche (1991)

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• The Orientation of the Nietzschean Text (1991)

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• The Early Reception of Nietzsche's Philosophy in Japan (1991)

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• Wanderers in the Shadow of Nihilism: Nietzsche's 'Good Europeans' (1993)

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• Nietzsche and Nishitani on the Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (1993)

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• Nietzsche on the Fabric(ation) of Experience (1995)

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• Nietzsche and Zen Master Hakuin on the Roles of Emotion and Passion (1995)

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• Nietzsche and East Asian Thought: Influences, Impacts, and Resonances (1996)

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• Nietzsche and Nishitani on Nihilism and Tradition (1997)

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• Floods of Life around Granite of Fate: Emerson and Nietzsche as Thinkers of Nature (1997)

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• Nietzsche and Early Buddhism [and an exchange with Robert G. Morrison] (2000)

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• Nature and the Human Redivinized: Mahayana Buddhist Themes in 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' (2000)

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• Nietzsche's Environmental Philosophy: A Trans-European Perspective (2005)

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• Introduction to Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' (2005)

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• The Symphonic Structure of Nietzsche’s 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' (2008/2022)

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• Nietzsche, Panpsychism and Pure Experience: An East-Asian Contemplative Perspective (2011)

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• Nietzsche's Care for Stone: The Dead, Dance, and Flying (2013)

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• Nietzsche and the Family (2013)

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• Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on the Human and Nature (2013)

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• An Exchange with Bret W. Davis on Nietzsche and Zen (2015)

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• Renatured Humans on a Sacred Earth: The Power of Nietzsche’s Ecological Thinking (2018/2022)

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• In the Light of Heaven before Sunrise: Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on Transperspectival Experience (2020)

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