Histories of Philosophy and Thought in the Japanese Language : A Bibliographical Guide from 1835 to 2021

This bibliographical handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the historiography of philosophy and thought in Japanese based on a comprehensive and thematically arranged collection of relevant literature. With over a thousand entries, the bibliography not only shows how extensive and complex the Japanese tradition of philosophical and intellectual history is, but also how it can be structured and analyzed in order to make it accessible to a comparative and intercultural approach to the history of philosophy worldwide. The literature is categorized and organized according to thematic focuses such as geographic regions and continents, nations and peoples, religious traditions and philosophical teachings such as Buddhism, Islam, Shintoism or Confucianism, and according to disciplines such as ethics, aesthetics or political thought. The bibliography is accompanied by an introduction setting out the research method and quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyzing the material, followed by a chronological overview of the historiography of philosophy and thought in the Japanese language and the Japanese tradition, "World Histories of Philosophy " to write. As a first step towards a "history of the historiography of philosophy" in non-European languages, the guide provides useful tools for an interculturally oriented scholarship aiming at a non-Eurocentric and diversified historiography of philosophy in a global perspective.