Toshihiko Izutsu and the Philosopy of word: in search of the spiritual orient

CHAPTER ONE

Shinpi tetsugaku: The Birth of a Poet-Philosopher

• The Pure Starting Point ...........................................................................1
• The Sage of Stagira and the Sacred Duty ................................................14
• The Poet Who Prophesies ........................................................................ 19
• Mitsuo Ueda and Sōetsu Yanagi ............................................................... 25

CHAPTER TWO

The Encounter with Islām

• The Children of Shem: Setsuzō Kotsuji .................................................... 39
• The Two Tatars .......................................................................................50
• Shūmei Ōkawa and the Origins of Japanese Islām ................................ 54
• Martyrdom and Dialogue: Hallāj and Massignon ................................... 61

CHAPTER THREE

Russia: The Spirituality of Night

• The Writer's Mission ...........................................................................71
• The Seer of Souls and the Mystic Poet: Dostoevsky and Tyutchev ... 79
• The Poet Who Sang of Life before Birth .................................................. 85
• The Eternal Idea ......................................................................................... 92

CHAPTER FOUR

A Contemporary and the Biography of the Prophet

• Religious Philosopher Yoshinori Moroi .................................................. 101
• Shamanism and Mysticism ......................................................................... 108
• Biography of the Prophet ............................................................................ 118

CHAPTER FIVE

Catholicism

• The Saint and the Poet ................................................................................. 127
• The Praxis of Proceeding toward Truth: Shūzō Kuki and Yoshihiko Yoshimitsu ... 141
• Izutsu’s Influence on Christians: Shūsaku Endō, Yōji Inoue and Takako Takahashi 147

CHAPTER SIX

Words and WORD

• The Position of Islām in Izutsu’s Scholarship ....................................... 155
• Language and Semantics ........................................................................ 161
• The "Introduction to Linguistics" Lectures ............................................ 168
• The Semantics of Waka .............................................................................. 180

CHAPTER SEVEN

Translator of the Heavenly World

• The Translation of the Kōran ..................................................................... 189
• Structure and Structuralism ....................................................................... 199
• Ibn 'Arabī ............................................................................................... 206
• Lao-tzŭ, Chuang-tzŭ and Ch'ü Yüan ........................................................ 215

CHAPTER EIGHT

Eranos — Dialogue in the Beyond

• The "Time" of Eranos ............................................................................ 223
• Otto and Eliade ...................................................................................... 233
• The Traditionalists and Sophia perennis ................................................ 241

CHAPTER NINE

Consciousness and Essence

• On the Eve of "Ishiki to honshitsu" .......................................................... 253
• Ad Orientem ............................................................................................ 259
• A Spiritual Autobiography .......................................................................... 264
• "Consciousness" and "Essence" ................................................................ 270
• The Mystic Philosophy of WORD ............................................................ 279

CHAPTER TEN

The Philosophy of Mind

• Buddhism and Depth Psychology: The Unconscious and Mu-consciousness 287
• The "Readings" of Writers ........................................................................... 296
• True Reality and Panentheism: Kitarō Nishida and Ben'nei Yamazaki ... 308