Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger
ISBN: 9780810140486
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Northwestern University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Watsuji Tetsurō 1889–1960; Heidegger Martin 1889–1976 -- Influence; Philosophy of nature;

In the first study of its kind, David W. Johnson's Watsuji on Nature reconstructs the astonishing philosophy of nature of Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960). Johnson situates Watsuji's philosophy in relation to his reception of the thought of Heidegger and to his renewal of core ontological positions in classical Confucian and Buddhist philosophy. He shows that for Watsuji we have our being in the lived experience of nature, one in which nature and culture compose a tightly interwoven texture called fūdo (

DAVID W. JOHNSON is an assistant professor of philosophy at Boston College.

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