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About Roman Paşca
Assistant Professor Department of Japanese Philosophy, Kyoto University
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East Asian Studies
September 30, 2020
Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy
Reading Tanabe Hajime and William Desmond
Takeshi Morisato
Hosted by Roman Paşca
Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy: Reading Tanabe Hajime and William Desmond (Bloomsbury, 2019) by Takeshi Morisato is a book that brings together the work of two significant …
East Asian Studies
July 8, 2020
Agents of World Renewal
The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan
Takashi Miura
Hosted by Roman Paşca
In this interview, we talk to Takashi Miura, assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, about his book Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of …
East Asian Studies
March 30, 2020
Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine
Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan
G. Clinton Godart
Hosted by Roman Paşca
In Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine. Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), G. Clinton Godart (Associate Professor at Tohoku University’s Department of Global Japanese …
East Asian Studies
January 16, 2020
Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline
Ching-yuen Cheung
Hosted by Roman Paşca
Ching-yuen Cheung's and Wing-keung Lam's edited volume Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline (V&R Unipress, 2017) is a collection of essays written by scholars of Japanese philosophy from all …
Literary Studies
July 9, 2019
Japanese Poetry and its Publics
From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima
Dean Anthony Brink
Hosted by Roman Paşca
Is classical Japanese poetry something to be enjoyed in private, an object of study for scholars, or an item of public life teeming with hints about how to understand and …
Literary Studies
October 26, 2018
Hermeneutics of Evil in the Works of Endō Shūsaku
Between Reading and Writing
Justyna Weronika Kasza
Hosted by Roman Paşca
In literature, evil can appear in a broad spectrum of shapes, images and motifs. For Endō Shūsaku, the problem of evil is central to the reality of human existence, and …
East Asian Studies
June 8, 2018
The Turn Against the Modern
The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912)
Ronald P. Loftus
Hosted by Roman Paşca
Taoka Reiun (1870-1912) was a literary critic and thinker who was active from the early 1890s in Meiji period Japan. Not satisfied with the meaning of bunmei kaika (“civilization and …
East Asian Studies
May 1, 2018
Rethinking Japanese Studies
Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region
Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto, eds.
Hosted by Roman Paşca
Rethinking Japanese Studies. Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge, 2018) is co-edited by Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto. The book tries to look at the discipline of Japanese Studies from …