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Philosophy of Desire
On this page, we will publish the English translation of the major work “Philosophy of Desire” by Seiji TAKEDA.
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The essence of Philosophy of desire
Vol. I and Vol.II
VolumeⅠ The essential principle of “meaning”
- This is the authorized English version of “Philosophy of Desire” Volume 1 by Seiji Takeda (published in Japan in 2017). Translation was created by Kazuko Isobe (a native Japanese speaker) with the assistance of AI translation tools such as ChatGPT, DeepL, and DeepL Write.
- The translation will not be uploaded all at once, but will be divided and uploaded sequentially as appropriate.
- The bibliography will be attached at the end after the full text has been uploaded.
- For books mentioned in the text, in the case of English translations, the year given is not the publication year of the original work, but the publication year of the English translation.
English translation
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Questions of Philosophy(2025.2. 10)
Section 1 The Origin of World Theories
Section 2 Theories on Philosophical Origins
Section 3 The Opposing Theories of the World
Section 4 Skepticism — The Riddles of Knowledge and Language
Section 5 Attempts at Universal Knowledge 1
Section 6 Attempts at Universal Knowledge 2
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Chapter 2 Unraveling the Enigmaof Knowledge
Section 7 Objective Knowledge and Mathematics
Section 8 The Impact of Skepticism
Section 9 Revival of Universalism
Section 10 Anti-Skepticism
Section 11 Modern Noumenalism
Section 12 Nietzschean Dismantling
Chapter 3 Explaining Noumenalism
Section 13 Anti-Phenomenology
Section 14 The Structure of the Intersubjective Conviction
Section 15 Phenomenology versus Ontology
Section 16 Critiques of Pre-constitution
Section 17 Dismantling Noumenalism 1
Section 18 Dismantling Noumenalism 2
Chapter IV Correlativity with Desire
Part A Desire and the Articulation of the World
Section 19 Noumenon and the Theories of Origin
Section 20 “Erossic”[1] Dynamics
Section 21 Desire and Unknowability
B Pleasure and Pain
Section 22 Pleasure and Unpleasure as the Primary Level
Section 23 The “Will to Power” Hypothesis
C Emotions, Feelings and Impulses
Section 24 Perception, Meaning and Emotion
Section 25 The Emotional Primordiality of the World
Section 26 Emotion Generation and Remote Perception
Chapter V Meaning, Value and Existence
A Meaning and Value
Section 27 Noumenalism of Value
Section 28 Noumenalism of Meaning
Section 29 Deconstructive Regression
Section 30 The Philosophy of Difference and Repetition
Section 31 Meaning and Identity
Section 32 The Essence of Inner Experience
Section 33 Generation of Meaning and Value
Section 34 Circular Argument and Authenticity
Section 35 Ontology and Metaphysics
Section 36 The Forgery of Metaphysics
Section 37 The End of the Question of Being
Chapter VI The General Constitution of the World
A The Horizon of the Present Consciousness
Section 38 Present Consciousness
Section 39 The Aporia of Time Theories
Section 40 Metaphysics of Presence
Section 41 The Constitution of the “Living Now”
B Eidetic Science of the Object of Knowledge
Section 43 Negative Theology of Knowledge
Section 44 The General Essence of the Object of Knowledge
Section 45 The General Constitution of the Life-world
C Mind-Body Dualism
Section 46 The Tangible
Section 47 Physical Monism
Section 48 The Discovery of Freedom
D The Constitution of Mental Existence
Section 49 Others’ Bodies
Section 50 Sovereign Bodies