Chapter 1: The Historical Foundations of Russian and Japanese
Philosophies
Chapter 2: Space in Noh-Plays and Icons
Chapter 3: Models of Cultural Space Derived from NISHIDA Kitaro and
Semën L. Frank (basho and sobornost')
Chapter 4: Space and Aesthetics: A Dialogue Between NISHIDA Kitaro
and Mikhail Bakhtin
Chapter 5: From Community to Time-Space- Development: Trubetzkoy,
Nishida, Watsuji
Chapter 6 Conclusion
Chapter 7 Postface: Resistance- and Slave Nations
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein is assistant professor of philosophy at Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.
This erudite, expansive book undertakes a study of convergences–as
distinct from comparisons– between the aesthetic manifestations and
political implications of Russian and Japanese philosophies of
space. . . . Aesthetics and Politics of Space is a generative
example of recent scholarship engaged in repositioning both Russian
and East Asian studies in a dynamic inter-Asian field of comparison
or "convergence," to use Botz-Bornstein's own term.
*Slavic and East European Journal*
An intellectual tour-de-force, Aesthetics and Politics of Space in
Russia and Japan succeeds admirably on several fronts, including
its presentation of the first sustained comparison of philosophies
from Japan and Russia and the introduction of Botz-Bornstein's
original concept of "convergence" as a convincing countermeasure to
the facile critiques that modern scholars have often leveled
against the alleged "totalitarianism" of major Japanese and Russian
thinkers. This is a work of philosophy as well as on philosophy-a
rare combination that makes this book required reading for anyone
who cannot afford to ignore the world in which s/he lives.
*Michael F. Marra, University of California, Los Angeles*
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