Watsuji’s Works

Watsuji Tetsurō, 1992, Watsuji Tetsurō Zenshū (Complete Works of Watsuji Tetsurō), 27 vols., Abe Yoshishigo et al., Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.

English Translations of Watsuji’s Work

• –––, 1969, “Japanese Ethical Thought in the Noh Plays of the Muromachi Period,” David Dilworth and Umeyo Hirano (trans.), Monumenta Nipponica, 24: 457–98. (Scholar)
• –––, 1988 [1961], Climate and Culture: A Philosophical Study, Geoffrey Bownas (trans.), New York: Greenwood Press; revised and reprinted from A Climate: A Philosophical Study, Geoffrey Bownas (trans.), Tokyo: Ministry of education and Hokuseido Press, 1961. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, Watsuji Tetsurō’s Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan, Yamamoto Seisaku and Robert E. Carter (trans.), Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, “The Japanese Spirit,” “The Significance of Ethics as the Study of Man,” and “The Way of the Japanese Subject”, in Sourcebook for Modern Japanese Philosophy: Selected Documents, translated and edited by D. Dilworth and V. Viglielmo (with Agustin Jacinto Zavala), Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 231–87. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, Purifying Zen: Watsuji Tetsurō’s Shamōn Dōgen, Steve Bein (trans.), Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Watsuji Tetsurō” selections in Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, James W. Hesig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo (eds.), Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 850–69. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara, Hiroshi Nara (trans.), Portland, Maine: Merwin Asia. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Abe, Masao, 1985, Zen and Western Thought, in William R. LaFleur (ed.), Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
• Arima, Tatsuo, 1969, The Failure of Freedom: A Portrait of Modern Japanese Intellectuals, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Bein, Steve, 2017, “Watsuji Tetsurō: Accidental Buddhist?”, in Michiko Yusa (ed.), The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy, New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
• Bellah, Robert N., 1965, “Japan’s Cultural Identity: Some Reflections on the Work of Watsuji Tetsurō”, The Journal of Asian Studies, 24 (4): 573–594. (Scholar)
• Bernier, Bernard, 2008, “Transcendence of the State in Watsuji’s Ethics”, in Victor Sōgen Hori and Melissa Anne-Marie Curley (eds.), Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations Nagoya, Japan: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 94–100. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, “De l’ethique au nationalism et au totalitarianisme chez Heidegger et Watsuji”, in Approches Critiques de la pensee japonaise du Xxe siecle (Critical Readings in Twentieth Century Japanese Thought), Montreal: Les Presses de l’Universite de Montreal, 109–162. (Scholar)
• Berque, Augustin,2005, “A Basis for Environmental Ethics”, Diogenes, 207: 148–151. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, “Offspring of Watsuji’s theory of milieu (Fōdo)”, GeoJournal, 60: 389–396. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, “Milieu et logique du lieu chez Watsuji”, Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 92 (4): 495–507. (Scholar)
• Carter, Robert E., 2013, The Kyoto School: An Introduction, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Japanese Ethics”, in Jay L. Garfield and William Edelglass (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press., 302–316. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, “Japanese Philosophy”, in Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd., 675–688. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Encounter With Enlightenment: A Study of Japanese Ethics, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Interpretive Essay: Strands of Influence,” in Watsuji Tetsurō’s Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan, Yamamoto Seisaku and Robert E. Carter (trans.), Albany: State University of New York Press, 325–354. (Scholar)
• Couteau, Pauline, 2006, “Watsuji Tetsurō’s Ethics of Milieu”, in James W. Heisig (ed.), Frontiers of Japanese PhilosophyNagoya, Japan: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 269–290. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “Guiding Principles of Interpretation in Watsuji Tetsurō’s History of Japanese Ethical Thought with Particular Reference to the Tension between the Sonno and Bushido Traditions,” in Victor Sōgen Hori and Melissa Anne-Marie Curley (eds.), Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations Nagoya, Japan: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 101–112. (Scholar)
• Dilworth, David. A., 1974, “Watsuji Tetsurō (1889–1960): Cultural Phenomenologist and Ethician”,Philosophy East and West, 24 (1): 3–22. (Scholar)
• Dumoulin, Heinrich, 1992, Zen Buddhism in the 20^thCentury, Joseph S. O’Leary (ed.,), New York/Tokyo: Weatherhill. (Scholar)
• Furukawa, Tetsushi, 1961, “Watsuji Tetsurō, the Man and His Work,” in Watsuji Tetsurō, Climate and Culture: A Philosophical Study, Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, Ministry of Education, 209–235. (Scholar)
• Higaki, Tatsuya, 2016, “Tetsurō Watsuji’s Theory of Betweenness , with a Focus on the Two-Person Community,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 41(3): 455–467. (Scholar)
• Janz, Bruce B., 2011, “ Watsuji Tetsurō, Fūdo and Climate Change”, Journal of Global Ethics, 7(2): 173–184. (Scholar)
• Johnson, David, 2019, Watsuji on Nature: Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger, Evanston: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “Self in Nature, Nature in Lifeworld: A Reinterpretation of Watsuji’s Concept of Fūdo,” Philosophy East and West, 68(4): 1134–1154. (Scholar)
• Kasulis, Thomas P., 2018, “Watsuji Testurō” in Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History (Chapter 13), Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. (Scholar)
• Keung, Lam Wing, 2008, “Subjectivity, Rinrigaku, and Moral Metaphysics”, in Victor Sōgen Hori and Melissa Anne-Marie Curley (eds.), Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations Nagoya, Japan: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 129–144. (Scholar)
• Kodera, James T., 1987, “The Romantic Humanism of Watsuji Tetsurō”, Dialogue & Alliance, 1(3): 4–11. (Scholar)
• Krueger, Joel, forthcoming, “Watsuji, Intentionality, and Psychopathology.” Philosophy East and West, first online 7 September 2019 (Project MUSE). doi:10.1353/pew.0.0183 (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Watsuji’s Phenomenology of Embodiment and Social Space”, Philosophy East and West, 63(2): 127–152. (Scholar)
• LaFleur, William R., 2001, “Reasons for the Rubble: Watsuji Tetsurō’s Position in Japan’s Postwar Debate About Rationality”, Philosophy East and West, 51(1): 1–25. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, “An Ethic of As-Is: State and Society in the Rinrigaku of Watsuji Tetsurō”, in Léon Vandermeersch (ed.), La société civile face à l’État dans les traditions chinoīse, japonaise, coréenne et vietnamienne, Paris: Études thématiques 3, École française d’Extrême-Orient, 453–464. (Scholar)
• –––, 1990, “A Turning in Taishō: Asia and Europe in the Early Writings of Watsuji Tetsurō”, in J. Thomas Rimer (ed.), Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals During the Interwar Years, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 234–256. (Scholar)
• –––, 1978, “Buddhist Emptiness in the Ethics and Aesthetics of Watsuji Tetsurō”,Religious Studies, 14(2): 237–250. (Scholar)
• Maraldo, John C., 2002, “Between Individual and Communal, Subject and Object, Self and Other: Mediating Watsuji Tetsurō’s Hermeneutics,” in Japanese Hermeneutics, Michael Marra (ed.), Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, pp. 76–86. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, “Watsuji Tetsurō’s Ethics: Totalitarian or Communitarian?,” in Komparative Ethik: Das gute Leben zwischen den Kulturen, Rolf Elberfeld and Günter Wohlfart (eds.), Koln: Edition Chōra, pp. 179–193 (Scholar)
• Mayeda, Graham, 2006, Time, Space and Ethics in the Philosophy of Watsuji Tetsurō, Kuki Shuzo, and Martin Heidegger, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• McCarthy, Erin, 2017, “ Watsuji Tetsurō: The Mutuality of Climate and Culture and an Ethics of Betweenness”, in Bret Davis (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199945726.013.26 (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Beyond the Binary: Watsuji Tetsurō” and Luce Irigaray on Body, Self and Ethics in Bret W. Davis, Brian Schroeder and Jason M. Wirth (eds.), Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 212–228. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese, and Feminist Philosophies, Lanham: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “Towards a Transitional Ethics of Care”, in Victor Sōgen Hori and Anne-Marie Curley (eds.), Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations, Nagoya, Japan: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 113–128. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, “Ethics in the Between”, Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions, 2: 63–78. (Scholar)
• Najita, Tetsuo, and Harootunian, H.D., 1988, “Japanese Revolt Against the West: Political and Cultural Criticism in the Twentieth Century”, in Peter Duus (ed.), The Cambridge History of Japan (Volume 6), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 711–774. (Scholar)
• Odin, Steve, 1996, The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, “The Social Self in Japanese Philosophy in Japanese Philosophy and American Pragmatism: A Comparative Study of Watsuji Tetsurō and George Herbert Mead”, Philosophy East and West, 42(3): 475–501. (Scholar)
• Parkes, Graham, 1997, “The Putative fascism of the Kyoto School and the political correctness of the modern academy”, Philosophy East and West, 47(3): 305–336. (Scholar)
• Piovesana, Gino K., 1969, Contemporary Japanese Philosophical Thought, New York: St. John’s University Press. (Scholar)
• Sakai, Naoki, 1991, “Return to the West/Return to the East: Watsuji Tetsurō’s Anthropology and Discussions of Authenticity”, in Masao Miyoshi (ed.), Japan and the World, a special issue of Boundary, 2: 157–190. (Scholar)
• Schultz, Lucy, 2013, “Creative Climate: Expressive Media in the Aesthetics of Watsuji, Nishida, and Merleau-Ponty”, Environmental Philosophy, 10(1): 63–82. (Scholar)
• Sevilla, Anton Luis, 2017, Watsuji Tetsurō’s Global Ethics of Emptiness: A Contemporary Look at a Modern Japanese Philosopher, London: Palgrave MacMillan. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “The Buddhist Roots of Watsuji Tetsurō’s Ethics of Emptiness,” The Journal of Religious Ethics, 44(4): 606–635. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Watsuji’s Balancing Act: Changes in his Understanding of Individuality and Totality from 1937 to 1949”, Journal of Japanese Philosophy, 2: 105–134. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “ Concretizing and Ethics of Emptiness: The Succeeding Volumes of Watsuji Tetsurō’s Ethics ”, Asian Philosophy, 19(3): 265–283. (Scholar)
• Shields, James M., 2009, “The Art of Aidagara: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Quest for an Ontology of Social Existence in Watsuji Tetsurō’s Rinrigaku”, Asian Philosophy, 19(3): 265–283. (Scholar)
• Shuttleworth, Kyle Michael James, forthcoming, “Watsuji Tetsurō’s Concept of ‘Authenticity’,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy, first online 19 November 2019. doi:10.1080/17570638.2019.1682774 (Scholar)
• Toru, Tani, 2002,”Watsuji Tetsurō: Beyond Individuality, This Side of Totality“, in J.J. Drummond and Lester Embree (eds.), Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy: A Handbook, New York: Springer, 497–515. (Scholar)
• Yuasa, Yasuo, 1987, The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory, T. P. Kasulis (ed.), Nagatomo Shigenori and T. P. Kasulis (trans.), Albany: State University Press of New York. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, ”The Encounter of Modern Japanese Philosophy with Heidegger“, Heidegger and Asian Thought, Graham Parkes (ed.), Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 155–174. (Scholar)