Tuesday 28 October – Friday 29 July 2011
Daiwa Japan Forum Prize Lecture - On the place of Japanese philosophy: If the past is a different country, are different countries in the past?
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
The Daiwa Japan Forum Prize was launched in 2001 and is awarded for the best article submitted to Japan Forum in the last year by a junior scholar. The official journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies, Japan Forum provides a comprehensive source of analytical articles in the field of Japanese Studies, and makes scholarship on Japan available to an international readership of specialists and non-specialists.
The Daiwa Japan Forum Prize 2003 was awarded to Dr Christopher S. Jones for his article, Politicizing travel and climatizing philosophy: Watsuji, Montesquieu and the European tour (vol:14, No.1 2002).
About the contributors
Christopher S. Jones
Christopher S. Jones is Lecturer in Modern Intellectual History at the Department of History, University of Nottingham. After completing a BA at Cambridge and an MPhil at Oxford, Dr Jones spent eighteen months as a researcher at Keio University in Tokyo. He subsequently received his PhD on the political philosophy of the Kyoto school in the inter-war period from the University of Oxford in 2002. In April 2003 Dr Jones Edited the special issue of Global Society “Locating the ‘I’ in ‘IR’ – Challenging the Euro-American Centricity of IR Theory” and his new book “Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School , and Co-Prosperity” will be published by RoutledgeCurzon in 2004.