Tōru Tani

Tōru Tani ( Japanese 谷 徹 , Tani Tōru ; born May 1, 1954 in Ichinomiya , Aichi Prefecture , Japan) is a Japanese philosopher .

Life

Tōru Tani studied philosophy at the Keiō University in Tokyo from 1973 to 1985 . He was a student of Junzō Kobata and Yoshihiro Nitta ( Tōyō University , Tokyo). Between 1986 and 1994 Tani teacher was of Philosophy and Ethics at the Dental College Kyushu ( Engl. Kyushu Dental College ) in Kitakyushu ( Fukuoka Prefecture ). Between 1989 and 1990 there was a research stay with Klaus Held at the Bergische Universität Wuppertalas a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Hertz Foundation. From 1994 to 2003 Tani taught philosophy, ethics, aesthetics and German at the Jōsai Kokusai Daigaku ( Josai International University ) in Tōgane ( Chiba Prefecture ) . Since 2003 he has been a full professor of philosophy at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto . From 2005 to 2007 Tani was Secretary General of the Phenomenological Society in Japan. At the Ritsumeikan University, Tani founded a center for phenomenological research, which he heads as director. In 2011 he was elected dean of his faculty.

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In his research, Tōru Tani has mainly devoted himself to the work of Edmund Husserl and worked on the further development of phenomenology . His introduction to phenomenology " This is phenomenology " (Japanese) found a large readership in Japan. Tani has especially dealt with the problem of violence . To this end, Tani published the results of a research project he led in the anthology "Violence and Human Being". An important contribution to intercultural phenomenology are Tani's investigations into the problems of self , nature and the other . He works for the Orbis Phenomenologicus on the editorial board. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Central European Institute for Philosophy (SIF) in Prague

Publications (selection)

• Life and the Life-world . In: Husserl Studies 3. Martinus Nijhoff, Dordrecht / Boston / London 1986.
• Home and the foreign . In: Husserl Studies 9. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht / Boston / London 1993.
• The physique of consciousness (Japanese). Tokyo 1998
• Inquiry into the I. Disclosedness and self-consciousness. Husserl, Heidegger , Nishida . In: Continental Philosophy Review 31. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht / Boston / London 1998.
• Phenomenology and Metaphysics of Nature . In: Phenomenology of Nature . Edited by Kah Kyung Cho and Young-Ho Lee (Phenomenological Research Special Volume). Publishing house Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 1999. ISBN 3-495-45651-1
• This is phenomenology (Japanese). Tokyo 2002
• Watsuji Tetsuro - Beyond Individuality. This Side of Totality . In: Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy. A handbook. Ed. J. Drummond and L. Embree. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht / Boston / London 2002.
• Sign, present and me . In: The appearing world . Festschrift for Klaus Held . Edited by Heinrich Hüni and Peter Trawny . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2002. ISBN 978-3428108961
• Ed. With H. Kawamoto and T. Matsuo: Phenomenology of Others (Japanese). Tokyo 2004
• Transcendental I and violence . In: Phenomenology and Violence . Edited by Harun Maye and Hans Rainer Sepp . (Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Perspektiven NF 6) Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005. ISBN 978-3-8260-2850-2
• Phenomenology of Life and Death . In: Life as a Phenomenon. The Freiburg Phenomenology in East-West Dialogue . Edited by Hans Rainer Sepp and Ichirō Yamaguchi. (Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Perspektiven NF 13) Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006. ISBN 978-3-8260-3213-4
• Edited with H. Imamura and M. Jay: Violence and being human (Japanese). Tokyo 2008
• "Clinical Psychology" and the Between . In: psycho-logik. Psychotherapy Yearbook. Philosophy and culture. Vol. 1. Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg i. Br. / Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-495-45901-0
• Edited with Yoshihiro Nitta : Exception and Answer. Phenomenology in Japan I. (Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Perspektiven NF 23) Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-8260-3895-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Tōru Tani on Google search
• Profile as a scientist (Japanese)