{"id":2288,"date":"2015-03-15T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2015-03-24T15:51:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:51:30","slug":"kure-tomofusas-book-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2015\/03\/kure-tomofusas-book-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kure Tomofusa’s book recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier in this blog we heard from Nishibe Susumu and Watanabe Sh\u014dichi<\/a>. Now it is time to break out the list of the man himself, Kure Tomofusa, from his book New Techniques for Readers<\/em> \u8aad\u66f8\u5bb6\u306e\u65b0\u6280\u8853 (1987). Kure-sensei sorted his recommendations into categories.<\/p>\n

Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Carl Schmitt, Political Theology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Carl Schmitt, Theory of the Partisan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Yoshimoto Takaaki, Tentative Proposals on Mathieu<\/em><\/s> (A recommendation offered without comment in New Techniques<\/em>, but in 2012 Kure-sensei reread Yoshimoto’s complete works and discovered that he had been deceived by the difficult style of writing, and in fact there was nothing interesting about them. I’m guessing he would rescind his recommendation.)<\/p>\n

D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation<\/a><\/em> (Recommended as a supplement to reading the Bible.)<\/p>\n

Carl Schmitt, Essays on Political Philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n

Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Lenin, State and Revolution<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Yoshimoto Takaaki, Communal Illusions<\/em><\/s> (Read instead Kure-sensei’s commentary on this book.)<\/p>\n

The rest of the suggestions are not nearly as interesting… <\/p>\n

History<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story of Japan’s Cruelties<\/em> [\u65e5\u672c\u6b8b\u9177\u7269\u8a9e; untranslated]<\/p>\n

Document: The Japanese<\/em> [\u30c9\u30ad\u30e5\u30e1\u30f3\u30c8\u65e5\u672c\u4eba; untranslated]<\/p>\n

Complete works of Yanagita Kunio [virtually untranslated; Tales of Tono<\/a> is available]<\/p>\n

Compete works of Orikuchi Shinobu [completely untranslated]<\/p>\n

Complete works of Minakata Kumagusu [completely untranslated]<\/p>\n

Shirakawa Shizuka, Folk Customs of Ancient China<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Shirakawa Shizuka, On the Early Man’y\u014d Poems<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Shirakawa Shizuka, Talks about Kanji<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Yuasa Yasuo, The Spiritual World of the Ancients<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Amino Yoshihiko, Placelessness\/Public Space\/Joy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Amino Yoshihiko, The Mongol Invasion<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Abe Kin’ya, The Pied Piper of Hamelin<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Abe Kin’ya, A Social History of the Executioner: Popular Life in Medieval Europe<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Abe Kin’ya, Ishii Susumu, Kabayama K\u014dichi The Medieval Landscape<\/em> (actually a very interesting, wide-ranging, 2-volume comparison of medieval East Asia and Europe. untranslated, obviously)<\/p>\n

Abe Kin’ya and Amino Yoshihiko, The Rediscovery of the Middle Ages<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Yokoi Kiyoshi, The Life and Culture of Medieval People<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Science<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Karl Feyerabend\b, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge<\/a><\/em> (A good discussion of Feyerabend can be found in Lee Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics<\/a><\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Murakami Y\u014dichir\u014d, New Theory on Science<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Murakami Y\u014dichir\u014d, Beyond Modern Science<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Murakami Y\u014dichir\u014d, Modern Science and Sacred\u2013Profane Revolution<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

It\u014d Shuntar\u014d, Science and Reality<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Hiroshige T\u014dru, Rethinking Modern Science<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Yoshioka Hitoshi, Beyond Technotopia<\/em> [untranslated] (however, a summary<\/a> is available at a high price)<\/p>\n

Ludwig von Bertalanffy\b, General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Imanishi Kinji, The World of Living Things<\/em><\/a> (builds on Bertalanffy)<\/p>\n

Imanishi Kinji and Yoshimoto Takaaki, Beyond Darwin<\/em> (untranslated, but simply an addition to the information in the translated book)<\/p>\n

Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ashidzu Uzuhiko, The Eternal Restorationist<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Yamagiwa Motoo, Untouchables<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Nagasaki Nobuko, The Indian Rebellion of 1857<\/em> (untranslated, but there are many comparable books in English)<\/p>\n

Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Several Japanese books are named that simply offer summaries of Needham, as well as a primary text: Tiangong Kaiwu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Yamada Keiji, The Natural Philosophy of Zhu Xi<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Wm. T. de Bary, The Liberal Tradition in China<\/em> (recently republished in English as The Great Civilized Conversation<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n

Got\u014d Sueo, Introduction des id\u00e9es chinoises en France au 17e et au 18e si\u00e9cle<\/em> [translated but unpublished]<\/p>\n

Kim Tal-su, Joseon<\/em> and History of Joseon<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

R. H. Mitchell, The Korean Minority in Japan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Some more Korea books and criticisms of North Korea omitted; these are too boring to list. In the early sections of this book Kure-sensei takes a very credulous stance towards Zainichi stories.<\/p>\n

Complete works of Takeuchi Yoshimi<\/a><\/p>\n

Complete works of Ishimitsu Makiyo [completely untranslated] (documentation of lower class life in Imperial Japan)<\/p>\n

Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oguchi Iichi, Religious Studies<\/em> [untranslated, and rare]<\/p>\n

Takatori Masao and Hashimoto Mineo, Before Religion<\/em> [untranslated] (a good introduction to Shinto)<\/p>\n

Rudolf Otto\b, The Idea of the Holy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Horigome Y\u014dz\u014d, Orthodoxy and Heresy<\/em> (a discussion of Christianity. untranslated, but surely there are good English books available on the subject)<\/p>\n

Aiba Shin \u76f8\u8449\u4f38, History of the Fuju-fuse Martyrs<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

Peter Worsley, The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of “Cargo” Cults in Melanesia<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n

Vittorio Lanternari, The Religions of the Oppressed: A Study of Modern Messianic Cults<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Miyata Noboru, A Study of the Miroku Faith<\/em> (this is quite good. untranslated, obviously)<\/p>\n

Maeyama Takashi, The Return Movements of Japanese Emigrants<\/em> [untranslated]<\/p>\n

A long list of publishers and discussions of their editors’ biases, etc. is omitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier in this blog we heard from Nishibe Susumu and Watanabe Sh\u014dichi. Now it is time to break out the list of the man himself, Kure Tomofusa, from his book New Techniques for Readers \u8aad\u66f8\u5bb6\u306e\u65b0\u6280\u8853 (1987). Kure-sensei sorted his recommendations into categories. Politics Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political Carl Schmitt, Political Theology Carl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}