Speaker: Graham Parkes (University College Cork, UCC)
Organizers: Yasuo Kobayashi, Yasunari Takada and Takahiro Nakajima (UTCP)

Lecture 1
May 10, 2011
Room 323, 3rd Floor, Building 8
　　
　　Dōgen and Nishitani on Practising Philosophy as a Matter of Life and Death

Reading Materials
Dōgen, Fukanzazengi　（普勧坐禅儀）
―, Zazengi　（座禅儀)
―, Shinjin gakudō　（身心学道）
―, Genjō kōan　（現成公案）
―, Zenki　（全機）
―, Tenzo kyōkun　（典座教訓）
Keiji Nishitani. Religion and Nothingness, chapter 2 (‘The Personal and Impersonal’) sec. V, chapter 3 (‘Nihility and Shunyata’).

Lecture 2
May 12, 2011
Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Building 101

　　The Kyoto School Thinkers on Nationalism and Internationalism

Reading Materials
Harry Harootunian, Overcome by Modernity, chapter 6 (sections on Miki Kiyoshi).
Graham Parkes, ‘京都学派とフアシズムのレッテル：現代アメリカにおける過度な政治的な正しさの問題’, in Fujita Masakatsu and Bret W. Davis, eds, 世界の中の日本の哲学 (Kyoto: Showado, 2005), 154-81.
Parkes, “The Definite Internationalism of the Kyoto School,” in Christopher Goto-Jones, ed., The Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School (Routledge, 2007), 161-182.
Parkes, ‘Heidegger and Japanese Fascism: An Unsubstantiated Connection’, in Bret W. Davis et al., eds, Japanese and Continental Philosophy (2010), pp. 247-65.

Lecture 3
May 17, 2011
Room 323, 3rd Floor, Building 8

　　Dōgen, Nietzsche, and Nishitani: Nature and Human Flourishing

Reading Materials
Dōgen, Sansuigyō　（山水経）
―, Shinjin gakudō　（身心学道）
―, Keisei sanshiki　（渓声山色）
Nishitani, ‘Shizen ni tsuite’.
Parkes, ‘Nature and the Human “Redivinized”: Mahāyāna Buddhist Themes in Thus Spoke Zarathustra’, in John Lippitt and James Urpeth, eds., Nietzsche and the Divine (Manchester, U.K.: Clinamen Press, 2000), 181-199.
―, ‘Body-Mind and Buddha-Nature: Dōgen’s Deeper Ecology’, in James W. Heisig and Rein Raud, eds, Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 7: Classical Japanese Philosophy (Nagoya, 2010), pp. 122-47.
―, ‘Nietzsche and the Pure Experience of Nature: An East-Asian Contemplative Perspective’.

Lecture 4
May 19, 2011
Collaboration Room 3, 4th Floor, Building 18

　　Zhuangzi, Heidegger, and Nishitani: Tensions between Nature and Technology

Reading Materials
Heidegger, ‘The Question concerning Technology’　（ハイデガー『技術への問い』）
Nishitani, Religion and Nothingness, chapter 3 (‘Nihility and Shunyata’), secs. I - IV.
Parkes, ‘Lao-Zhuang and Heidegger on Nature and Technology’
Zhuangzi, Inner Chapters (1 – 7).　『荘子』内編（1-7）

Lecture 5
May 24, 2011
Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Building 101

　　Video: Walter Benjamin’s Paris―Projecting the Arcades

Reading Materials
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project: F (‘Iron Construction’), H (‘The Collector’), K (‘Dream City’), M (‘The Flaneur’), N (‘Theory of Knowledge’).