Tetsugaku Companion to Ogyu Sorai

Chapter 1. Introduction (W.J. Boot).- Part 1. Kaidai / Introductions.- Chapter 2. Yakubun sentei (Aihara K saku).- Chapter 3. Sorai's Military Studies (Kojima Yasunori).- Chapter 4. Ken'en zuihitsu ("Jottings from the Miscanthus Garden"), Ken'en jippitsu ("Ten Writings from the Miscanthus Garden") (Takayama Daiki).- Chapter 5. Gakusoku ("School Rules"), Sorai-sensei t monsho ("Master Sorai's Responsals") (Takayama Daiki).- Chapter 6. Bend and Benmei (John A. Tucker).- Chapter 7. Rongo-ch ("Proof of the Analects"), Daigaku-kai ("Explanation of the Great Learning"), Chuy -kai ("Explanation of the Mean") (Sawai Keiichi).- Chapter 8. Seidan ("Discourse on Government") and Taiheisaku ("A Plan for the Great Peace") (Tajiri Yuichir ).- Chapter 9. Ogyu Sorai's Collected Works (Sorai-shu) (Sawai Keiichi).- Part 2. Essays.- Chapter 10. An "Intellectual-Historical" Biography of Ogyu Sorai (Sawai Keiichi).- Chapter 11. Sorai's Theory of Learning (Kojima Yasunori).- Chapter 12. Gods, Spirits and Heaven in Ogyu Sorai's Political Theory (Olivier Ansart).- Chapter 13. Ogyu Sorai and the Forty-Seven R nin (John A. Tucker).- Chapter 14. "The Reception of Sorai's Thought in the Second Half of the Edo Period" (W. J. Boot). Chapter 15. "Sorai's Teachings in East-Asia: The Formation of His Methodology of Studying the Classics and the Reception of His Works on the Classics" (Lan Hung Yueh).- Chapter 16. The Study of Sorai's Thought in Modern Japan (Takayama Daiki).

W.J. Boot studied Japanese, Korean and Chinese Studies at Leiden University and Kyoto University. He specialised in the history of Japanese Thought. He took his PhD in 1983 (The Adoption and Adaptation of Neo-Confucianism in Japan: The Role of Fujiwara Seika and Hayashi Razan), and was appointed professor of Japanese and Korean studies at Leiden University in 1985 (until 2012). He published numerous papers on the intellectual history of Early Modern Japan and on Japanese poetics.

Daiki Takayama studied at the University of Tokyo (College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) and took his PhD at the same university (School of Humanities and Sociology) in  2011. After being employed as postdoctoral researcher for several years, he was recently appointed at Komazawa University as lecturer of Chinese literature (Kanbun) in Early Modern Japan and the History of Thought of this same period. He recently published Kinsei Nihon no 'reigaku' to 'shuji': Ogyu Sorai igo no'setsujin' no seido k s   (2016).