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Name:

Yukiko Kuwayama
Fields:phenomenology of emotions and atmospheres, Japanese philosophy
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Faculty
　
Contact yukikokuwayama@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
　
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Yukiko Kuwayama is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo.
After graduating from Sophia University (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters), she received her M. A. in translation (German-Japanese) from the Graduate School of Asian Studies (Department of Japanese Studies), University of Bonn, and her degree of Dr. phil. from the Department of Philosophy, University of Hildesheim. After working for three years as a lecturer at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, she returned to Tokyo in July 2023.
Yukiko specializes in phenomenology of feelings, perception, and atmospheres (Merleau-Ponty, Hermann Schmitz). Inspired by later wittgensteinian understanding of language, she analyzed the word field of ki (気) from Japanese contemporary language via her linguistic phenomenology (conceptualized through her reading of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception and J. L. Austin's "linguistic phenomenology") in her doctoral thesis. For the relevance of the question on language, she researches also on Japanese philosophy inside and outside of the Kyoto school. She is a co-responsible and co-moderator of the Groupe d'étude de philosophie japonaise at the Institut français de recherche sur l’Asie de l’Est (Inalco/Université de Paris/CNRS) and the Japanese Philosophy Network (U-Tokyo), and a member of the Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS).
　
Affiliation /
Position:

Lecturer at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Komaba
Publications etc.
–Books:



Ki (気), Fühlen und Empfinden – eine linguistische Phänomenologie vorprädikativer Erfahrungsformen, Karl Alber, Freiburg/München, 2023
Publications etc.
–Papers:

「三木清による構想力批判の新たな展望に向けて ―牧野英二著『京都学派とディルタイ哲学―日本近代思想の忘却された水脈』書評小論文の試み―」『求真』第30号, 2026年。

"Qi, Ki, and Affective Attunement: Towards a Cross-Cultural Dialogue of Phenomenology of Care" in: Care Ethics and Beyond Moral, Epistemological, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy), p. 61-72, 2026.

„Die Gefühlskultur und ihre Transformabilität: Von Ágnes Hellers Gefühlstheorie zu einer interkulturellen Gefühlsphänomenologie“ in: Polylog Nr. 54, Universität Wien, 2025.

« Kūki (空気) ou ‘l’air’ : un essai pour une recherche néo-phénomenologique de la subjectivité » dans : Le sujet et la subjectivité au Japon (Armand Colin) p. 345-360, 2025.

“Being With and In Language - Ueda’s Phenomenological Approach to Language through Urwort” in: Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy - Ueda Shizuteru (TCJP, volume 5, Springer, Cham, 2022, p. 189–200.

„Phänomenologie des Fühlens im Horizont der Interaffektivität aus dem japanischen Ki-Wortfeld“ in: Intercultural Philosophy Nr. 1 (2022) Temporality and Intersubjectivity: Dimensions of the Embodied Human Mind and its Pathologies, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2022, p. 23-36.

„Erfahrung der Übergänge vom Urwort Ueda Shizuterus aus“ in: Transitions: Crossing Boundaries in Japanese philosophy, Chisokudō publications, edited by Leon Krings, Francesca Greco and Yukiko Kuwayama, Chisokudō Publications, Nagoya, 2021, p. 196–219.
Web Site:

https://researchmap.jp/yukikokuwayama?lang=en
Related Site:

https://philosophiejaponaise.blogspot.com/

https://www.nomos-shop.de/en/karl-alber/title/ki-%E6%B0%97-fuehlen-und-empfinden-id-116184/

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