This bibliographical guide gives a comprehensive overview of the historiography of philosophy and thought in the Japanese language through an extensive and thematically organized collection of relevant literature. Comprising over one thousand entries, the bibliography shows not only how extensive and complex the Japanese tradition of philosophical and intellectual historiography is, but also how it might be structured and analyzed to make it accessible to a comparative and intercultural approach to the historiography of philosophy worldwide. The literature is categorized and organized according to thematic focus areas such as geographical regions and continents, nations or peoples, religious traditions and philosophical teachings such as Buddhism, Islam, Shinto, and Confucianism, as well as disciplines such as ethics, aesthetics, and political thought. The bibliography is accompanied by an introduction outlining the research method as well as quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyzing the material, followed by a chronological overview of the historiography of philosophy and thought in the Japanese language and of the Japanese tradition of writing “world histories of philosophy.” As a first step towards a “history of the historiography of philosophy” in non-European languages, we hope that this guide will provide a useful tool for interculturally oriented scholarship aimed at a non-Eurocentric and diversified historiography of philosophy in a global perspective.

Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts hat die dekoloniale Kritik vor allem aus Lateinamerika und Afrika die Universitäten in Europa erreicht. Die Kritik richtet sich gegen die kolonialen Verstrickungen der europäischen Wissenschaften, durch die Unterdrückung legitimiert, Rassismus wissenschaftlich begründet und koloniale Machtansprüche untermauert wurden. Das vorliegende Buch nimmt diese Kritik auf und versucht, philosophisch Verantwortung zu übernehmen im Prozess einer Dekolonisierung des Denkens und der Wissenschaften.