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Christopher Perkins, The United Red Army on screen: Cinema, aesthetics and the politics of memory

Christopher Perkins, The United Red Army on screen: Cinema, aesthetics and the politics of memory CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 91 ‘adventurism’ (13); when vipāka (ijuku 異熟) is explained as ‘differently maturing’ (94), the reader needs to be told the point of reference to which this difference may be presumed (i.e. the difference between the effect and its cause that allows the Buddhist theory of causality to circumvent the problem of determinism)—to mention just a few examples. Generally speaking, a little more context to Yasuda’s choice of words, traditionalist perspective, philosophical influences, and overall project would have resulted in a format that would not only present but critically assess some of the issues that motivate his attempts at reinterpretation and reformation. I, for one, would have loved an in-depth discussion of, say, the role Tanabe Hajime (1885–1962)—in many ways Nishida Kitarō’s philosophical antagonist—plays in the formation of Yasuda’s thought, for the simple reason that a passage like ‘That sentient beings […] are dependent on the transcendent means that sentient beings negate sentient beings themselves’ (55) much reminds of Tanabe working out his concept of absolute negation as absolute mediation in his Shu no ronri 種 論理 (‘The Logic of Specific,’ roughly 1935–1945). Such issues notwithstanding, Watt’s present volume is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Christopher Perkins, The United Red Army on screen: Cinema, aesthetics and the politics of memory

Knaudt, Till
Contemporary Japan , Volume 29 (1): 4 – Jan 2, 2017
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Christopher Perkins, The United Red Army on screen: Cinema, aesthetics and the politics of memory

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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 91 ‘adventurism’ (13); when vipāka (ijuku 異熟) is explained as ‘differently maturing’ (94), the reader needs to be told the point of reference to which this difference may be presumed (i.e. the difference between the effect and its cause that allows the Buddhist theory of causality to circumvent the problem of determinism)—to mention just a few examples. Generally speaking, a little more context to...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2017 Till Knaudt
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1869-2737
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1869-2729
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10.1080/18692729.2017.1281506
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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 91 ‘adventurism’ (13); when vipāka (ijuku 異熟) is explained as ‘differently maturing’ (94), the reader needs to be told the point of reference to which this difference may be presumed (i.e. the difference between the effect and its cause that allows the Buddhist theory of causality to circumvent the problem of determinism)—to mention just a few examples. Generally speaking, a little more context to Yasuda’s choice of words, traditionalist perspective, philosophical influences, and overall project would have resulted in a format that would not only present but critically assess some of the issues that motivate his attempts at reinterpretation and reformation. I, for one, would have loved an in-depth discussion of, say, the role Tanabe Hajime (1885–1962)—in many ways Nishida Kitarō’s philosophical antagonist—plays in the formation of Yasuda’s thought, for the simple reason that a passage like ‘That sentient beings […] are dependent on the transcendent means that sentient beings negate sentient beings themselves’ (55) much reminds of Tanabe working out his concept of absolute negation as absolute mediation in his Shu no ronri 種 論理 (‘The Logic of Specific,’ roughly 1935–1945). Such issues notwithstanding, Watt’s present volume is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the

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Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2017

References

  • Dead bodies and living guns: The United Red Army and its deadly pursuit of revolution, 1971–1972