Kuki Shuzo 1888 – 1941
Kuki Shuzo (1888 – 1941) was a Japanese philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy.
Kuki Shuzo was a Japanese philosopher who studied with Heinrich Rickert and Martin Heidegger in Germany before returning to teach at Kyoto Imperial University. His most original work, The Structure of Iki, offered a phenomenological analysis of the Edo aesthetic ideal of iki, a refined, resigned, and coquettish style, as the expression of a distinctly Japanese mode of being-in-the-world. The Problem of Contingency placed the category of chance at the heart of metaphysics, arguing that the contingent is not a defect of the necessary but its precondition, and exerted a quiet influence on later Japanese and continental thought.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Kuki Shuzo:
“Iki is a refinement that has come to know resignation.”
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Attributed to Kuki Shuzo:
“Contingency is the encounter of independent series; it is the fact that the world need not have been thus.”
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Attributed to Kuki Shuzo:
“A culture's mode of being is sedimented in its aesthetic ideals.”
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Attributed to Kuki Shuzo:
“Necessity dreams of the contingent; without contingency, the necessary would be empty.”
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Attributed to Kuki Shuzo:
“The structure of iki is the structure of a worldly attunement, not of an isolated feeling.”
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