Fwd: PLEASE ANNOUNCE April 7 at 4pm: Prof. Tom Kasulis, The Dialectical Self in Modern Japanese Philosophy: Negotiating the alterity of the West

[Seth Josephson]

This is sure to be philosophically interesting. 

-S

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From: Dave Hooker <brown...@osu.edu>
Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 1:10 PM
Subject: PLEASE ANNOUNCE April 7 at 4pm: Prof. Tom Kasulis, The Dialectical Self in Modern Japanese Philosophy: Negotiating the alterity of the West
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http://www.go.osu.edu/kasulis

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On April 7 at 4pm in Hagerty 180 Prof. Thomas Kasulis will deliver the keynote address for the Humanities Institute Working Group Dialectics East and West. After the lecture  there will be a brief reception followed by discussion and questions in Hagerty 145.

Optional readings on Watsuji Tetsurō in preparation for the keynote address on April 7:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/watsuji-tetsuro/

Selections from Watsuji’s writings taken from Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook.  Skip the pages in which he discusses the medieval religious philosophers Shinran and Dogen, focusing instead on his phenomenology of “cold” from Climates and Cultures and a longer section of his magnum opus, Ethics.

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Seth J. Josephson, M.A.
GTA and Ph.D. Candidate 
OSU, Department of Comparative Studies
451 Hagerty Hall - 1775 S. College Rd. - Columbus, Ohio 43210