John M Shields
Biographic Data
| ID | 747684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Shields |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Shields |
| SIGNATURE | SHIELDS J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6457-3041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Osvobození jako revoluční praxe
In this article, fi rst published in English in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 (2013), pp. 461–99, James Mark Shields analyzes the possibilities and problems of a “Buddhist materialism” constructed along Marxian lines, by focusing in particular on Buddhist and Marxist conceptions of “liberation.” Although it is only in recent decades that scholars have begun to reconsider and problematize Buddhist conceptions of “freedom” and “agency,” the tho…
Future Perfect
This study focuses on the role played by the work of Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) in shaping socialism and agrarian-Buddhist utopianism in Japan. As Japanese translations of Tolstoy's fiction and philosophy, and accounts of his life became more available at the end of the 19th century, his ideas on the individual, religion, society, and politics had a tremendous impact on the generation coming of age in the 1900s and his popularity grew among young in…
Conclusion
The Conclusion examines the various theoretical and practical problems of the accommodation between Buddhism and Marxism, in particular the convergence of Japanese Buddhist ethics with philosophical and historical materialism, through an analysis of some the theoretical writings of figures discussed in the preceding chapters. This convergence is situated within the context of notable political shifts and events—namely, World War II and the devast…
Prelude
This Prelude to Chapters One through to Six introduces the story of three generations of the Akamatsu family, whose tri-generational patriline illustrates well the changes which shaped institutional and lay Buddhism in the five decades from the Buddhist Enlightenment through the beginning of the Asia Pacific War.
Against Harmony
Against Harmony traces the history of progressive and radical experiments in Japanese Buddhist thought and practice from the mid-Meiji period through the early Shōwa period (1885–1935), when historical events coalesced to eliminate all such experiments. It is a work of both intellectual history and of critical, comparative thought. Perhaps the two best representations of progressive Buddhism during this period were the New Buddhist Fellowship (18…
Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan
The past decade has witnessed a cross-disciplinary resurgence of various forms of radical theory. The work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri has sought to resuscitate elements of Marxism and communism, David Graeber has argued for an “anarchist anthropology,” while a recent publication by Sho Konishi makes a strong case for understanding Japanese modernity in terms of anarchist theory. This slim volume by Ikuho Amano adds to this list, by provid…
Zen and the Art of Treason
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as Japanese society became engulfed in war and increasing nationalism, the majority of Buddhist leaders and institutions capitulated to the status quo. At the same time, there was a stream of ‘resistance’ among a few Buddhist figures, both priests and laity. These instances of progressive and ‘radical Buddhism’ had roots in late Edo-period peasant revolts, the lingering discourse of early Meiji perio…
Revisioning a Japanese Spiritual Recovery through Manga
This essay provides a critical analysis of the aesthetic ideology of “Gomanism” in the manga of Kobayashi Yoshinori (b. 1953), particularly Yasukuniron (On Yasukuni, 2005) and Tennoron (On the Emperor, 2009), in order to flesh out the implications of the author's “revisionist” approach to Japanese religion, politics and history
Beyond Belief
For several centuries, Japanese scholars have argued that their nation's culture-including its language, religion and ways of thinking-is somehow unique. The darker side of this rhetoric, sometimes known by the English term "Japanism" (nihonjinron), played no small role in the nationalist fervor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While much of the so-called "ideology of Japanese uniqueness" can be dismissed, in terms of the Jap…
The Art of Aidagara
This paper provides an analysis of the key term aidagara (‘betweenness’) in the philosophical ethics of Watsuji Tetsurō (1889–1960), in response to and in light of the recent movement in Japanese Buddhist studies known as ‘Critical Buddhism’. The Critical Buddhist call for a turn away from ‘topical’ or intuitionist thinking and towards (properly Buddhist) ‘critical’ thinking, while problematic in its bipolarity, raises the important issue of the …
Stanley Hoffmann
The Extreme Right in France
The Front National has for some years been France's third political party and the most notable far-right force in Europe; its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, contested the 2002 presidential election run-off with 5.5 million votes. What do Le Pen and the FN represent? What are their historical roots, their values and their policies? Who votes for them and why? And what has been their impact on the political agenda in France? Adopting an essentially chr…
Christian Fantasy
in chronological succession
Either/Or
A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 3
Reactive Violence and the American Frontier
Reactive Violence and the American Frontier
In Search of Persian Pottery
Painting in the Yamato Style
Momoyama Genre Painting
Edo Painting
Future Perfect
This study focuses on the role played by the work of Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) in shaping socialism and agrarian-Buddhist utopianism in Japan. As Japanese translations of Tolstoy's fiction and philosophy, and accounts of his life became more available at the end of the 19th century, his ideas on the individual, religion, society, and politics had a tremendous impact on the generation coming of age in the 1900s and his popularity grew among young in…
Beyond Belief
For several centuries, Japanese scholars have argued that their nation's culture-including its language, religion and ways of thinking-is somehow unique. The darker side of this rhetoric, sometimes known by the English term "Japanism" (nihonjinron), played no small role in the nationalist fervor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While much of the so-called "ideology of Japanese uniqueness" can be dismissed, in terms of the Jap…
Edo Painting
In Search of Persian Pottery
Painting in the Yamato Style
Momoyama Genre Painting
Reactive Violence and the American Frontier
Reactive Violence and the American Frontier
A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 3
Christian Fantasy
in chronological succession
Either/Or
The Extreme Right in France
The Front National has for some years been France's third political party and the most notable far-right force in Europe; its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, contested the 2002 presidential election run-off with 5.5 million votes. What do Le Pen and the FN represent? What are their historical roots, their values and their policies? Who votes for them and why? And what has been their impact on the political agenda in France? Adopting an essentially chr…
The Art of Aidagara
This paper provides an analysis of the key term aidagara (‘betweenness’) in the philosophical ethics of Watsuji Tetsurō (1889–1960), in response to and in light of the recent movement in Japanese Buddhist studies known as ‘Critical Buddhism’. The Critical Buddhist call for a turn away from ‘topical’ or intuitionist thinking and towards (properly Buddhist) ‘critical’ thinking, while problematic in its bipolarity, raises the important issue of the …
Stanley Hoffmann
Beyond Belief
For several centuries, Japanese scholars have argued that their nation's culture-including its language, religion and ways of thinking-is somehow unique. The darker side of this rhetoric, sometimes known by the English term "Japanism" (nihonjinron), played no small role in the nationalist fervor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While much of the so-called "ideology of Japanese uniqueness" can be dismissed, in terms of the Jap…
Revisioning a Japanese Spiritual Recovery through Manga
This essay provides a critical analysis of the aesthetic ideology of “Gomanism” in the manga of Kobayashi Yoshinori (b. 1953), particularly Yasukuniron (On Yasukuni, 2005) and Tennoron (On the Emperor, 2009), in order to flesh out the implications of the author's “revisionist” approach to Japanese religion, politics and history
Zen and the Art of Treason
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as Japanese society became engulfed in war and increasing nationalism, the majority of Buddhist leaders and institutions capitulated to the status quo. At the same time, there was a stream of ‘resistance’ among a few Buddhist figures, both priests and laity. These instances of progressive and ‘radical Buddhism’ had roots in late Edo-period peasant revolts, the lingering discourse of early Meiji perio…
Conclusion
The Conclusion examines the various theoretical and practical problems of the accommodation between Buddhism and Marxism, in particular the convergence of Japanese Buddhist ethics with philosophical and historical materialism, through an analysis of some the theoretical writings of figures discussed in the preceding chapters. This convergence is situated within the context of notable political shifts and events—namely, World War II and the devast…
Prelude
This Prelude to Chapters One through to Six introduces the story of three generations of the Akamatsu family, whose tri-generational patriline illustrates well the changes which shaped institutional and lay Buddhism in the five decades from the Buddhist Enlightenment through the beginning of the Asia Pacific War.
Against Harmony
Against Harmony traces the history of progressive and radical experiments in Japanese Buddhist thought and practice from the mid-Meiji period through the early Shōwa period (1885–1935), when historical events coalesced to eliminate all such experiments. It is a work of both intellectual history and of critical, comparative thought. Perhaps the two best representations of progressive Buddhism during this period were the New Buddhist Fellowship (18…
Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan
The past decade has witnessed a cross-disciplinary resurgence of various forms of radical theory. The work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri has sought to resuscitate elements of Marxism and communism, David Graeber has argued for an “anarchist anthropology,” while a recent publication by Sho Konishi makes a strong case for understanding Japanese modernity in terms of anarchist theory. This slim volume by Ikuho Amano adds to this list, by provid…
Future Perfect
This study focuses on the role played by the work of Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) in shaping socialism and agrarian-Buddhist utopianism in Japan. As Japanese translations of Tolstoy's fiction and philosophy, and accounts of his life became more available at the end of the 19th century, his ideas on the individual, religion, society, and politics had a tremendous impact on the generation coming of age in the 1900s and his popularity grew among young in…
Osvobození jako revoluční praxe
In this article, fi rst published in English in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 (2013), pp. 461–99, James Mark Shields analyzes the possibilities and problems of a “Buddhist materialism” constructed along Marxian lines, by focusing in particular on Buddhist and Marxist conceptions of “liberation.” Although it is only in recent decades that scholars have begun to reconsider and problematize Buddhist conceptions of “freedom” and “agency,” the tho…
Philosophy (12 works) · History (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)