Reception and Transformation of Heidegger’s Philosophy in East Asia: From Tanabe Hajime and Hung Yao-hsün

Title

Reception and Transformation of Heidegger’s Philosophy in East Asia: From Tanabe Hajime and Hung Yao-hsün

Author

Chin-ping LIAO

Page

49-84

DOI

10.6163/TJEAS.201806_15(1).0003

Abstract

Heidegger, Tanabe Hajime, Hung Yao-hsün, Dialectic, Existence

Keyword

Before Being and Time was published, Heidegger’s philosophy had already been introduced to East Asia by Tanabe Hajime, a philosopher of the Kyoto School. The very first idea introduced to Japanese academia was the new turn from Husserl’s phenomenology of pure consciousness to Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology. With Heidegger’s works published, philosophers in East Asia, such as Hung Yao-hsün (1902-1986) from Taiwan, Park Chong-hong (1903-1976) of Korea and Xiong Wei (1911-1994) from China, joined the trend in introducing and discussing Heidegger’s philosophy with regards to their own philosophical concerns and historical backgrounds. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the process of reception and transformation of Heidegger’s philosophy in Tanabe Hajime and Hung Yao-hsün, and to unveil the historical episode of the alienation of Heidegger’s philosophy in East Asia. Tanabe’s response to Heidegger’s philosophy constituted his notion of dialectic of body (space) or dialectical ontology, which later became the foundation of Tanabe’s philosophy of “the logic of species.” Through observing the development of Tanabe’s philosophy, we can witness the historical context and internal necessity for the development of Japanese philosophy. For Hung, his reception was based on Tanabe’s understanding of Heidegger, but was also a product of the concepts from Hegel, Heidegger and the Kyoto School. He tried to develop a philosophy that was relevant to the historical situation of Taiwan; in other words, it was a theory of “dialectical existential” which revealed the subjectivity of Taiwan.

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