About Roman Paşca

Assistant Professor Department of Japanese Philosophy, Kyoto University
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NBN Episodes hosted by Roman:

Takeshi Morisato, "Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

September 30, 2020

Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy

Takeshi Morisato
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Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy: Reading Tanabe Hajime and William Desmond (Bloomsbury, 2019) by Takeshi Morisato is a book th…

Takashi Miura, "Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)

July 8, 2020

Agents of World Renewal

Takashi Miura
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In this interview, we talk to Takashi Miura, assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, about his book Agents…

G. Clinton Godart, "Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)

March 30, 2020

Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine

G. Clinton Godart
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In Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine. Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), G. Clinton Godart (Associate P…

Ching-yuen Cheung, "Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline" (VR Unipress, 2017)

January 16, 2020

Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline

Ching-yuen Cheung
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Ching-yuen Cheung's and Wing-keung Lam's edited volume Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline (V&R Unipress, 2017) is a collect…

Dean Anthony Brink, “Japanese Poetry and its Publics: From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima” (Routledge, 2018)

July 9, 2019

Japanese Poetry and its Publics

Dean Anthony Brink
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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 h…

Justyna Weronika Kasza, "Hermeneutics of Evil in the Works of Endō Shūsaku: Between Reading and Writing" (Peter Lang, 2016)

October 26, 2018

Hermeneutics of Evil in the Works of Endō Shūsaku

Justyna Weronika Kasza
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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 hu…

Ronald P. Loftus, "The Turn Against the Modern: The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912)" (Association for Asian Studies, 2017)

June 8, 2018

The Turn Against the Modern

Ronald P. Loftus
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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…

Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto, eds., "Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region" (Routledge, 2018)

May 1, 2018

Rethinking Japanese Studies

Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto, eds.
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Rethinking Japanese Studies. Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge, 2018) is co-edited by Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto. The book trie…