Biography

Adam Loughnane is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Cork and Co-Director of the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies. His research and teaching centre on the phenomenological and aesthetic traditions of Europe and Asia. Focusing on French, German and Japanese philosophies, Adam explores themes such as non-theistic conceptions of faith, phenomenological accounts of motion, perception, and expression, language (apophatic, poetic), as well as intercultural philosophical methodology. His monograph "Nishida and Merleau-Ponty: Artistic Expression as 'Motor-Perceptual faith,'" (SUNY 2019) won the European Network of Japanese Philosophy book prize (2023). Adam co-edited Tetsugaku Companions to Ueda Shizuteru (Springer, 2023) and will soon publish a monograph Phenomenology of Tea: A Dialogue on Japanese Aesthetics as part of Bloomsbury’s World Philosophies series (2025). His work in intercultural phenomenology and aesthetics has been published in Philosophy East and West, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Performance Philosophy, Polylog, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Adam is General Editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge) and Assistant Editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy (Chisokudō). ‍

Research Interests

Japanese Philosophy, 'Kyoto School', Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, East-West Comparative Philosophy, Intercultural Philosophy, Comparative Aesthetics, Existentialism, Existential-Phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Nishida, Ueda, Dōgen, Expression, Motor-Perception, Faith

Research Grants

  Project Funding
Body 		Start Date End Date Award
Japan Foundation grant for: European Network of Japanese Philosophy - 7th Annual Conference 07-SEP-23 09-SEP-23 €4,400.00
Towards a Methodology of “Philosophical Labour”: Re-reading the History of Global Philosophy beyond Theory-Practice Binaries Enterprise Irl 09-OCT-22 09-APR-24 €14,955.00
Toshiba Foundation grant for: European Network of Japanese Philosophy - 7th Annual Conference 07-SEP-23 09-SEP-23 €12,000.00

Books

  Year Publication
(2025) Phenomenology of Tea: An Introduction to Japanese Aesthetics (forthcoming).
Adam Loughnane (2025) Phenomenology of Tea: An Introduction to Japanese Aesthetics (forthcoming). UK: Bloomsbury. [Details]
(2021) Review essay by Glen A. Mazis — Loughnane on Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Artists Expressing Faith Intrinsic to Embodiment.
Glen A. Mazis (2021) Review essay by Glen A. Mazis — Loughnane on Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Artists Expressing Faith Intrinsic to Embodiment. Chicago: Comparative and Continental Philosophy. [Details]
(2019) Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Artistic Expression as Motor-Perceptual Faith.
Adam Loughnane (2019) Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Artistic Expression as Motor-Perceptual Faith. New York: SUNY. [Details]

Edited Books

  Year Publication
(2022) Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience and Zen
Adam Loughnane, Ralf Müller, Raquel Bouso-Garcia (Ed.). (2022) Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience and Zen New York: Springer. [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2024) 'Excess and Restraint in Repetitive, Non-Mimetic Japanese and Greek Art Ritual'
Adam Loughnane (2024) 'Excess and Restraint in Repetitive, Non-Mimetic Japanese and Greek Art Ritual' In: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on Japanese Aesthetics. London: Lexington. [Details]
(2024) 'Intimations of Eckhart in the Poetic Language of Heidegger and Ueda'
Adam Loughnane (2024) 'Intimations of Eckhart in the Poetic Language of Heidegger and Ueda' In: Orients Desorienté. London: Springer. [Details]
(2023) 'Flowers of Dim-Sightedness: Dōgen’s Mystical ‘Negative Ocularcentrism’'
Adam Loughnane (2023) 'Flowers of Dim-Sightedness: Dōgen’s Mystical ‘Negative Ocularcentrism’' In: Dōgen’s Text: Philosophy as/and/of Religion. London: Springer. [Details]
(2022) 'Narcissus and the Ox-Herder: Seeing (Interculturally) without a Seer'
Adam Loughnane (2022) 'Narcissus and the Ox-Herder: Seeing (Interculturally) without a Seer' In: What is Comparative Philosophy?. London: Oxford. [Details]
(2022) 'The Gift of Philosophy’s Giveness: Mapping the Exclusionary Topos of Japanese Philosophy and Non-Philosophy'
Adam Loughnane (2022) 'The Gift of Philosophy’s Giveness: Mapping the Exclusionary Topos of Japanese Philosophy and Non-Philosophy' In: Japanese Philosophy in the Making. Japan: Chisokudo. [Details]
(2021) '“Poetic Language in the Philosophies of Ueda and Heidegger”'
Adam Loughnane (2021) '“Poetic Language in the Philosophies of Ueda and Heidegger”' In: Language, Experience and Zen: The Works of Ueda Shizuteru Tetsugaku Companion to the Philosophy of Ueda Shizuteru [Forthcoming]. New York: Springer. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2021) 'Japanese Aesthetics as Intercultural Double Bind'
Adam Loughnane (2021) 'Japanese Aesthetics as Intercultural Double Bind'. Proceedings And Addresses Of The American Philosophical Association, 20 (2) [Details]
(2020) 'The Birth of Fire, Indescribable Light, and the Limits of Philosophy’s Violence: Nāgārjuna and Plato Seeing and Speaking of Nothing'
Adam Loughnane (2020) 'The Birth of Fire, Indescribable Light, and the Limits of Philosophy’s Violence: Nāgārjuna and Plato Seeing and Speaking of Nothing'. Comparative And Continental Philosophy, 12 [ Publisher's Version] [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'MERLEAU-PONTY AND NISHIDA: "INTEREXPRESSION" AS MOTOR-PERCEPTUAL FAITH'
Loughnane, A (2017) 'MERLEAU-PONTY AND NISHIDA: "INTEREXPRESSION" AS MOTOR-PERCEPTUAL FAITH'. Philosophy East & West, 67 :710-737 [DOI] [Details]
(2016) '“Zum Verhältnis von Performance und Philosophie im Kontext asiatischer Philosophien”'
Adam Loughnane (2016) '“Zum Verhältnis von Performance und Philosophie im Kontext asiatischer Philosophien”'. Polylog: Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, 35 [Details]
(2016) '“Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Art, Depth, and Seeing-without-a-Seer”'
Adam Loughnane (2016) '“Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Art, Depth, and Seeing-without-a-Seer”'. European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, [Details]
(2016) 'Expression and Bodily Faith in Natalie Heller’s First Impressions'
Adam Loughnane (2016) 'Expression and Bodily Faith in Natalie Heller’s First Impressions'. Journal of Performance Philosophy, 2 (1) [ Publisher's Version] [Details]
(2015) '“Performing Philosophy in Asian Traditions – Nishida Kitarō”'
Adam Loughnane (2015) '“Performing Philosophy in Asian Traditions – Nishida Kitarō”'. Journal of Performance Philosophy, [Details]

Encyclopedia Entries

  Year Publication
(2018) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Japanese Aesthetics.
Adam Loughnane, Graham Parkes (2018) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Japanese Aesthetics. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Encyclopedia Entries. [ Publisher's Version] [Details]

Book Reviews

  Year Publication
(2018) Crossing Paths with Maraldo's Nishida.
Adam Loughnane (2018) Crossing Paths with Maraldo's Nishida. Book Reviews [Details]
(2012) The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking.
Adam Loughnane (2012) The End of Comparative Philosophy and the Task of Comparative Thinking. Book Reviews [Details]

Journal Volume Edited

  Year Publication
(2021) Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology: Philosophy and Landscape, East and West. Vol.7, No.2.
Adam Loughnane (2021) Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology: Philosophy and Landscape, East and West. Vol.7, No.2. Journal Volume Edited [Details]

Translations

  Year Publication
(2018) Ueda, l'ecteur d'Eckhart.
Bernard Stevens (2018) Ueda, l'ecteur d'Eckhart. Translations [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2007) North American Heidegger Circle
Adam Loughnane (2007) “Heidegger's Poetic Language and the Ethical Will” North American Heidegger Circle [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2023 Book Prize: European Network of Japanese Philosophy Excellence Award ENOJP
2014 Japan Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship Japan Foundation
2011 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst PhD Fellowship DAAD
2011 Irish Research Council Doctoral Fellowship Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
Irish Institute for Japanese Studies Co-Director 01-JAN-16 / 31-AUG-16

Languages

  Language Reading Writing Speaking
French Fluent Fluent Fluent
German Functional Functional Functional
Japanese Basic Basic Basic

Other Activities

  Description

Associate Editor: European Journal of Japanese Philosophy

Editor: Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology

Teaching Interests

CURRENT PHD STUDENTS

David Walsh - "The Entanglement of Art, Life, and Entrainment: A Dialogue Between Alva Noë and Nishida Kitarō"

Elodie Martin - "The Japanese Tea Ceremony as a Site of Feminist Emancipation"

Khalif Vernon - "Recognizing Hope: Phenomenology and the Political Theology of Revolution"

Roy Wroth - "Merleau-Ponty's Social Spatiality"

Amir Shahhosseini Angas - "Merleau-Ponty and Pallasmaa: Bodily Experience in Architectural
Phenomenology of Blindness"

John Martin Thompson - "Concept as Material: A Materialist Analysis of the Concept in Conceptual Art 1965-72"


PAST PHD/MA STUDENTS

Lan Ying 

Rudi Capra 

Lee Copson

Lan Yu

Tianhao Fang

David Walsh

Garrett Tobin





Current Postgraduate Students

  Student Degree Type
Walsh David John Doctoral Degree