On April 7 at 4pm in Hagerty 180 Prof. Thomas Kasulis will deliver the keynote address for the Humanities Institute Working Group Dialectics East and West. After the lecture there will be a brief reception followed by discussion and questions in Hagerty 145.
Optional readings on Watsuji Tetsurō in preparation for the keynote address on April 7:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/watsuji-tetsuro/
Selections from Watsuji’s writings taken from Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. Skip the pages in which he discusses the medieval religious philosophers Shinran and Dogen, focusing instead on his phenomenology of “cold” from Climates and Cultures and a longer section of his magnum opus, Ethics. Sourcebook section on Watsuji
Professor Kasulis’ curriculum vitae can be found here.