Miki Kiyoshi and the overcoming of german and japanese philosophy
- Autores: Dennis Stromback
- Localización: European Journal of Japanese Philosophy: EJJP, ISSN-e 2367-3095, Nº. 5, 2020, págs. 103-144
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In the many intellectual twists and turns of Miki Kiyoshi’s life, we see a relentless search for cultivating a philosophical standpoint that unites the interiority of subjectivity and the objective materials of the external world into a dialectical logic. The culmination of Miki’s quest is articulated in his magnum opus, The Logic of Imagination, where a dialectical unity of logos and pathos is born within the creative imagination. The idea behind Miki’s dialectical unity is granting subjectivity its own independent existence while having it forge material relationships against the horizon of creating a new “human being” for the social world. This article discusses Miki’s mélange of anthropological humanism and Marxism in an attempt to correct Hegel’s, Marx’s, and Nishida’s dialectics by centring on the creative imagination as the basis for social history. It goes on to argue that this dialectical standpoint ends up smuggling in a quasi-idealist account of subjective reality, which in turns lends itself to a legitimization of Japanese nationalism.
