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Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Note on Names and Translations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 East Asian IR Revisited -- Chapter 3 Encounter, Transformation of Time and Self-Colonisation: The Japanese Modernisation -- Chapter 4 Nishida Kitaro and Tanbae Hajime: The First Generation of the School -- Chapter 5 The Transcendental Whole and 'Inclusiveness': The Discourse of the Big 4 -- Chapter 6 Miki Kisyoshi's Philosophy of Imagination: Towards Everyday Life -- Chapter 7 Tosaka Jun's Theory of Critical Relationality: Morality of Everydayness -- Chapter 8 The Reception of the Kyoto School Philosophy in the Post-war Era -- Chapter 9 Bringing Bodily Experience Back In Post-war Japanese IR -- Chapter 10 Conclusion: Towards a Mah ā y ā na Buddhist IR? -- Bibliography -- Index.

"What do we study when we study International Relations (IR)? This book interrogates the meanings of the established ontology and subjectivity embedded in the discourse of 'Western' and 'non-Western' IR. We are predisposed to see a nation-state as a unified entity, everlasting and moving towards a particular end. This leads us to say, for example, 'Japan is threatened by the possible Chinese attack' without questioning what 'Japan' and 'China' mean in this context. This book tries to locate and unearth the consistent structure and system of the world, with a particular focus on subjectivity and temporality in IR, that captures the way in which we conceive and misconceive the world. The contributors reveal the extent to which contemporary IR discourses are a part of the culture of linear progress and pre-given autonomous sovereign individuals. Our targets of inquiry therefore inevitably include not only 'Western' IR but 'non-Western' discourses as well. The contributors focus on the fluid identities of contemporary world affairs with special attention to temporality, and strive to develop a new approach to understanding the contemporary world and the meanings of world affairs"--

Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Asian Studies, Asian Politics and Law, Development, Migration, Ethnicity and Identity, General