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This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the work of the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, with a particular focus on the conceptual material of his work. It seeks to answer the following questions: Is there any philosophic material or concepts in the work of Haruki Murakami? If so, why are they important? Does philosophic engagement add anything to the Murakami research field? Equally, does Murakami’s fiction present us with anything valuable for the field of philosophy?
The volume uniquely develops the field of Murakami studies through acting as a forum for interdisciplinary researchers to share their perspective on his work. Importantly, it furthers the conversation on Murakami’s philosophic value and through doing so, is a must-read not only for those interested in Japanese literature or culture, but also for those interested in the productive space existing at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and psychoanalysis.
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In Statu Nascendi's Special Issue 2022:1 focuses on the novels of Haruki Murakami: What is the relation between philosophy and an acclaimed Japanese literary writer? Murakami himself has been reluctant to expound on any deeper meaning to be found in his stories. The answer can be found in the great interest in and diverse engagement of readers with Murakami’s work. In a truly global sense, readers have sensed such a depth in Murakami. Whether it is psychoanalytical, sociological, mythological, or political, readers are motivated to extend Murakami’s texts: to think about and work with them long after their initial reading. The objective of this special issue of ISN is to explore this depth to Murakami’s work from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to present novel arguments to the growing research community.
Levinas's ethical phenomenology proposes, as it is discussed in the main body of this study, biblical and not experimental evidence to discuss subjectivity, which can be justified only by prioritizing the Other and not the Self. Levinas vehemently provides his opposition to the total enforcement of the I. It is the Other who always comes first. There is an intersubjective dissymmetry and that is mistakenly avoided in analytical philosophy. Where the analytic line of thought provides autonomy, Levinas speaks about heteronomy, and where the former insists on totality of the self, Levinas provides vulnerability and accountability. Only a vulnerable I can love his neighbour and care for him/her. For Levinas, what matters at all is not the priority of the I in relation to the other, but the priority of the other in relation to me. Such a relationship does not suppose any absorption. And for Levinas we should dramatically reverse the traditional hierarchy where the self takes precedence over the other by introducing the idea of the infinite beyond the subject and the world. On his own turn, Kierkegaard suggests the human journey begins from the aesthetical temptations, then, elevates the individual to the common ethical norms, and finally arrives to the personal faith in God. Kierkegaard unpacks his own philosophical thought about subjectivity that is not too far from Levinas’s proposal about Selfhood because Kierkegaard asserts that we ought to be moral persons. However, this morality does not depend on others but on us. Moreover, according to Kierkegaard, God’s approach to the Other is love, but love also is a way of myself to reach the Other and that implies a direct relation between me and God through an honest pray.
This edition of In Statu Nascendi was co-authored by Venera Russo, (Issue 2022:2) dealt with issues related to Gender Equality in Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Feminism in the Global Landscape, and Women’s Engagement in International Peace and Security. Issue 2022:2 comprises, amongst others, the following articles: ·Interview with the Revolutionary Association for Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) on 'Feminist Resilience in Afghanistan' ·The Feminist Other ·The situation of women in Poland under a right-wing populist Government (2015 - present). ·Responses to the Gettier Problem: Goldman, Dretske, Nozick, and Williamson ·Kierkegaardian Religious Dialectics: God and death as a scandalous paradox
Issue 2023:1 of In Statu Nascendi comprises, amongst others, the following articles: · Ethics of AI and Robotics from an non Anthopomorphical and Zoomorphical Perspective · The Self and Mental Health Studies: A Postmodern Introduction · On the German Foreign Policy Sonderweg: The Mittellage and the Mitteleuropa · Gödel’s non-completeness theorems as hermeneutic questioning in Mathematics · Integrating Ontology in statu nascendi in the Main Currents of International Relations Theory Content analysis through text mining: an empirical approach of understanding international political integration theories in practice