JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.1, Vol.13, Spring 2023
Special Issue: Female Literary Characters and Female Social Identities
HUIYI BAO/ Claustrophilia, Claustrophobia,and Locale Fatale: The Spatial Poetics of The Monk 37
CHUN LIU/ Weaving Her Muthos: Helen in Book 4 of the Odyssey 49
Book Review
YEYAN GAO/ Li Jikai et al., Modern Silk Road Literature in Cultural Perspective 121
JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.2, Vol.13, Summer 2023
Special Issue: East-West Literature in the Perspective of Cultural Crossvergence
Jikai Li/ Guest Editor’s Introduction 1
Articles
JIKAI LI/ Cultural Crossvergence and Modern Chinese Literature 3
YANQIU ZHAO/ Chinese Realism: From Importation and integration to independent Development 15
XU SUN/ Cultural Crossvergence: Theory, Practice, and Significance in Contemporary China 69
SHUTING KOU/ Wenxin Diaolong in the Historical Works of Chinese Literature in Modern Japan 87
Review Article
Book Review
JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.3, Vol.13, Fall 2023
Articles
JOSEF SEIFERT/ “Linguistic Analysis” and Clarification of Terms as Tools for Understanding “Things Themselves” 1
YANG YE/ “Making It Strange”: The Travel Writings of Wang Siren 9
HUIMIN JIN/ Postmodernism in the 21st Century Pros and Cons 19
AKIYOSHI SUZUKI/ Transcending the Gap between American and Japanese Thoughts: A Cross-cultural Reading of Haruki Murakami’s and Truman Capote’s Literary Texts 31
ALOK KUMAR/ Existentialist Vedanta: Reading Vivekananda with Camus 45
A. BALAKRISHNAN/ Caste Slavery: Restructuring and Implications in Kerala Society 57
R. K. ROSHNI RAJ LAKSHMI/ Stoicism in Yoga Text 69
SUBHAM MUKHERJEE & ARUNIMA GHOSH/ Anti-colonial Intellectualism and the Privilege of Discourse: Identifying Colonial Proliferations and Ideological Complicity in George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant (1936) 81
PROSENJIT RAY/ Subaltern Renaissance: Thakur Panchanan Barma & Rajbanshi Society 97
JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.4, Vol. 13, Winter 2023
Articles
XUNWU CHEN/ Democracy and the Public Use of Reason: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas 9
Articles: Buddhist Studies
RADHA KRISHNA BAROR/ Buddha and Marx: A Philosophical Comparison 25
SAMRIDHYA MOITRA/ Sauntering towards Awakening in Thoreau’s Walden “Economy”: Through the Lens of the Buddha and the Dhammapada 45
Review Articles
TASNIMA YASMIN/ Neurosis of Arab and Indian Diasporic Characters In Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Prairies Of Fever and Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People 61
DESALE ABRAHA/ The Refugee Crisis and Japan’s Double Standards of Protection 75
YIWEN LIU/ Chinese Scholars on “Marx and Justice” 91
KANT KUMAR/ Whither Chinese Socialist Law: A Comparative Note on “Rule of Law” and China Defined Notion of “Ruling the Country in Accordance with Law” 103
JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.1, Vol.14, Spring 2024
Reality, Real Being, and Phenomenological Noumenology
Josef Maria Seifert
Edited by X. Chen and J. Z. Ding
With an introduction by Xunwu Chen
Chapter One: THE PRIMORDIAl PHENOMENON OF REALITY
1. What is Reality and Real Existence? 13
2. Husserl's Twofold Error in the Characterization of “Reality” 14
3. Scheler's Incorrect Assertion about Reality and its Primary Criterion and Form of Cognition 18
4. The Irreducible and Indefinable Primordial Phenomenon of Reality Enables its Grasp through its Opposites and Essential Features 19
5. The “Final Being” of the Real Beings 22
Chapter Two: PHENOMENOLOGY AS NOUMENOLOGY
1. Indubitable Knowledge of Real Being in the Cogito 41
2. Characteristics of Essentially Necessary States of Affairs 62
3. Critical Reflections on the Immediate Datum of the Real Being of the Conscious Self and His Acts A Realist Phenomenological Response to David Hume’s Denial of Personal Identity 83
4. Kant’s Objections against the Cogito and Replies 90
5. Knowledge of Other Persons “I” – “Thou” – “He”/ “She” 97
Chapter Three: FROM CONTINGENT BEINGS TO THE MOST REAL ENS NECESSARIUM
1. From Contingent Beings to the Necessary Being 100
2. From Being in Time that Moves towards Nothingness to Eternal and Most Real Being 109
About the Author 113
JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.2, Vol.14, Summer 2024
Articles: Philosophical Studies
ARMAN RAHMIM/ On Ontological Openness: Who is Open? Resonating Thoughts from Continental Philosophers and Muslim Mystics 1
ABANI SONOWAL/ Rāmānuja’s Commentary on Metaphysics of the Bhagavadgītā: A Critical Study (Part-I) 17
SUYASHA SINGH ISSER/ Redefining Common Good for Women in Rousseau’s Philosophy 31
Articles: Literary Studies
EUGENIA PRASOL/ Trauma Through Dystopian Distortions of Memory: Ogawa Yoko’s The Memory Police 47
SANGHAMITRA SINHA and MALAVIKA SINHA/ A Study on Purvarchika of Samaveda: Connotation of Sama and Soma 61
ARATRIKA BOSE/ From Top-Bottom to Kothi-Panthi: Situating the Active Passive Dichotomy in Modern Indian Cultural Milieu through a Select Study of R Raj Rao’s Gay Protagonists 81
YEYAN GAO/ Exploring Narrative Innovations and Intellectual Quests: A Study of Zijiang Ding’s The Absurd Generation 93
Book Review
Xu Sun/ Chen Xiaoming: Chen Xiaoming’s Anthology(eight volumes), Guangdong Peoples Publishing House, China, 2023 113
JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.3, Vol.14, Fall 2024
ISSN: 2161-7236 (Print), 2168-2259 (Online) / NUMBER 3, VOLUME 14, SEPTEMBER 2024
Articles: Literary & Art Studies
AITORU TERENGUTO/ Concerning Poetic Creativity Between Imagination and Allegory: Attempt at an Allegorical Interpretation of Coleridge's “Kubla Khan” 1
S. ALEXANDER & G. VIGNESHWAR/ A Study on Cross-Generation Assimilation in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s To Whom She Will 17
YINGSHAN LIU/ A Study of the Female Image of Midori in Norwegian Wood in China 25
KAPOU MALAKAR/ Development of Neorealism in Assamese Films: An Auteur Perspective of Select Films 37
Articles: Philosophical Studies
WENNAN WU/ English Translations of Li Zhi’s Works 67
RAMAN & PRIYANKA MAHAJAN/ Utopian Future with Artificial Intelligence and Superintelligence: A Comparative Analysis of Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence 87
JOURNAL OF EAST-WEST THOUGHT No.4, Vol. 14, Winter 2024
ISSN: 2161-7236 (Print), 2168-2259 (Online) / NUMBER 4, VOLUME 14, DECEMBER 2024
Articles: Philosophical Studies
YOSHIO TAKANASHI/ A Comparative Investigation of Emerson’s “God-within” and Shinran’s Amida-Buddha 1
R.LEKSHMI/ Gandhian Philosophy: An Alternative Method for Practising Liberal Democracy 13
VANAMALA DEEPAK. K & SRIDHAR MELUKOTE K/ The Science and Philosophy of Creation in Mahabharatha-An exegesis of Vyasa Kootas by The Kriya Masters 25
SANGHAMITRA SINHA,MALAVIKA SINHA & NAMGYAL TSHEWANG BHUTIA/ A Study on Third Mundaka Canto 1, Mundaka Upanisada CPP 39
PRABHAKAR/ The Politics of Metaphysics in Indian Philosophy 49
Articles: Literary & Art Studies
SHALINI & AJOY BATTA / Traversing Third Space: Analyzing Global Identity, Colonialism, and Hybridity through a Bhabhaian Lens in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence 61
PRATIBHA TIKARAMJI SOMKUWAR & SAROJ KUMAR/ Narrating Trauma and Memories in the Posthuman World of Sci-fi Films 75
BISHAL BISWAKARMA / Reimagining and Relocating Gorkhas: A Postcolonial Glimpse in Frontier, A Short Story by Shiv Kumar Rai 85
REEMA DEVI & PRIYA RAGHAV / Depiction of Female-Sexuality in The Fisher Queen’s Dynasty: A Critical Study 93