Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish.Roger T. Ames &Takahiro Nakajima (eds.) -2015 - Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.detailsThe Zhuangzi is a deliciously protean text: it is concerned not only with personal realization, but also with social and political order. In many ways the Zhuangzi established a unique literary and philosophical genre of its own, and while clearly the work of many hands, it is one of the finest pieces of literature in the classical Chinese corpus. It employs every trope and literary device available to set off rhetorically charged flashes of insight into the most unrestrained way to (...) live one's life, free from oppressive, conventional judgments and values. The essays presented here constitute an attempt by a distinguished community of international scholars to provide a variety of exegeses of one of the Zhuangzi's most frequently rehearsed anecdotes, often referred to as "the Happy Fish debate." The editors have brought together essays from the broadest possible compass of scholarship, offering interpretations that range from formal logic to alternative epistemologies to transcendental mysticism. Many were commissioned by the editors and appear for the first time. Some of them have been available in other languages—Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish—and were translated especially for this anthology. And several older essays were chosen for the quality and variety of their arguments, formulated over years of engagement by their authors. All, however, demonstrate that the Zhuangzi as a text and as a philosophy is never one thing; indeed, it has always been and continues to be, many different things to many different people. (shrink)
Aku no tetsugaku: Chūgoku tetsugaku no sōzōryoku.Takahiro Nakajima -2012 - Tōkyō: Chikuma Shobō.detailsこの世の悪は、一人ひとりがその行いを改めれば払拭できるものだろうか?自然災害に見舞われ、多くの人が苦しめられているとき、そこに悪の問題はないのだろうか?孔子や孟子、荘子、荀子などの中国古代の思想家たち も、悪という問題に直面し、格闘してきた。清代にいたるまでの、そうした悪をめぐる哲学的思考を辿りなおし、その可能性と限界を描き出す。悪にあらがい、その残酷さを引き受け、乗り越えるための方途を探る哲学の書 である。.
Does the Word Exhaust Meaning?Takahiro Nakajima -2010 -Diogenes 57 (3):66-76.detailsIn order to control language Chinese philosophy discovered methods other than the ‘rectification of names’. On one hand there is the total annihilation of language, and on the other a greater clarification of language than the one performed by the ‘rectification of language’. To understand this situation better it is necessary to go backwards in the genealogy from the controversy over the theory that ‘language exhausts meaning’ and the one that maintains ‘language does not exhaust meaning’, which took place in (...) the period of the six dynasties (second half of the third century of the Christian era). We shall look at the controversy between the argument of Ouyang Jian and that of Xun Can. Then we reach the theory of Wang Bi, who synthesizes the controversy and invents another idea about language. This idea is a ‘forgotten language’ that tries to annihilate completely the alterity of language. What is aimed at in the annihilation of language is a world of pure meaning which increases profit, which is governed magnificently: it is a world where everything is reduced to the One. (shrink)
Kiki no jidai no tetsugaku: sōzōryoku no disukūru.Takahiro Nakajima -2021 - Tōkyō-to Meguro-ku: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai.details世界はいま危機に直面している.その危機に直面したときに試されているのが,我々の想像力であり,イメージの力なのである.その想像力を鍛えるのに最も重要なのは,批判(クリティーク)なのだ.いま最もアクチュア ルに活動している哲学者・中島隆博が紡ぐ,危機の時代の哲学の実践へ.
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La parole épuise-t-elle le sens?Takahiro Nakajima -2010 -Diogène 3:92-105.detailsPour dominer le langage, la philosophie chinoise a découvert des moyens autres que la « rectification des noms ». Il s’agit d’une part de l’annihilation totale de la langue, et d’autre part d’une clarification de la langue plus grande que celle opérée par la « rectification de la langue ». Pour mieux comprendre cette situation, il est nécessaire à remonter la généalogie à partir de la controverse sur la théorie de « la parole épuise le sens » et celle de (...) « la parole n’épuise pas le sens » qui se déroula à l’époque des six dynasties (deuxième moitié du IIIème siècle de l’ère chrétienne). On réfléchit la controverse entre le discours d’Ouyang Jian et celui de Xun Can. Puis, on arrive à la théorie de Wang Bi qui synthétise la controverse et invente l’autre idée sur le langage. Cette idée est un « langage oublié » qui essaie d’annihiler complètement l’altérité du langage. Ce qu’on vise par l’annihilation du langage, c’est un monde du sens pur, qui augmente le profit, qui est gouverné magnifiquement, c’est un monde où tout est ramené à l’Un. (shrink)
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Shisō to shite no gengo.Takahiro Nakajima -2017 - Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten.details人類は深奥に潜む意識をいかに表現し思想としての普遍性を獲得してきたか。古今東西の表現者たちが格闘した言語経験を省察する。.
Zankyō no Chūgoku tetsugaku: gengo to seiji.Takahiro Nakajima -2007 - Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai.details荘子、朱子学、魯迅、ポーコック、アーレント、レヴィナス...言語と政治をめぐる古今の思考に分け入り、他者の声の響きに耳をすます。中国哲学を脱構築する企て。.