SEIJI TAKEDA PHILOSOPHY SITE
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The New Phenomenological Movement in Japan ー
…… This site introduces the philosophy of Seiji Takeda, a Japanese philosopher who develops phenomenology, proposed by Husserl, as a principle of thought for pursuing the essence of human meaning and value. (Site administrator)
TAKEDA's WORKS
……This page introduces the works of Seiji Takeda that are currently translated into English..
TAKEDA'S WORKS
Perfect-paraphrase Series of Philosophical Text
Perfect Paraphrase series is the world’s first “Complete Decipherment of Philosophy” series, in which the entire original texts of difficult philosophical books, from the first to the last chapter almost as it is, have been rewritten and “converted” into plain language that ordinary readers can easily understand. So far, Husserl (Idea of Phenomenology), Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit) and Kant (Critique of Pure Reason) have appeared, with sequels planned for Heidegger, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and other big names.
Volume I: Husserl
The agreement of subject and object’ is, in principle, impossible. What was Husserl’s idea of ‘phenomenological reduction’ to solve the enigma of the ‘epistemological problem’ that has plagued modern philosophers? This book clears up the misunderstandings about the phenomenology which has long been subject to various criticisms, and gets to the heart of Husserlian phenomenology. The first in a very popular Perfect-paraphrase series for accessible reading of the key principles of modern philosophy.
Volume II: Hegel
Hegel is the culmination of European philosophy. On the one hand, Hegel synthesized the philosophical achievements of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant and established the fundamental ideas of modern society. What is truly remarkable, however, is the depth of his thought, which goes to the very essence of human existence. Twentieth-century philosophy stumbled upon Hegel’s philosophical system of the Absolute and failed to understand its true essence. Now the true potential of Hegel’s philosophy is being revealed. Second in the series of perfect-paraphrase!
Volume III: Kant
Reread Kant's philosophy, the pinnacle of modern philosophy! What is the principle of the "impossibility of metaphysics"? What are "antinomy," "categories," and "the thing in itself"? This book unravels these difficult concepts in an easy-to-understand way, allowing us to survey the horizons of knowledge that Kant brought to the modern era.
Introduction to Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s philosophy was rescued from the great misunderstanding of the philosophy of power in the second half of the 20th century, but its true achievement — the radical overturning of the epistemology and ontology of European philosophy — has not yet been understood. What is the ‘eternal return’? What is the ‘idea of power’? A radically new approach to Nietzschean philosophy must be offered.