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In Statu Nascendi is a peer-reviewed journal that aspires to be a world-class scholarly platform encompassing original academic research dedicated to the circle of Political Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Theory of International Relations, Foreign Policy, and the political Decision-making process. The journal investigates specific issues through a socio-cultural, philosophical, and anthropological approach to raise a new type of civic awareness about the complexity of contemporary crisis, instability, and warfare situations, where the “stage-of-becoming” plays a vital role.
Issue 2022:1 focuses on the novels of Haruki Murakami.
Haruki Murakami: What is the relation between philosophy and an acclaimed Japanese literary writer? Murakami himself has been reluctant to expound on any deeper meaning to be found in his stories. The answer can be found in the great interest in and diverse engagement of readers with Murakami’s work. In a truly global sense, readers have sensed such a depth in Murakami. Whether it is psychoanalytical, sociological, mythological, or political, readers are motivated to extend Murakami’s texts: to think about and work with them long after their initial reading. The objective of this special issue of ISN is to explore this depth to Murakami’s work from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to present novel arguments to the growing research community.
Part I: Works (full articles)
Jonathan Dil: "Oh My Kamisama! God in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki"
Tomoki Wakatsuki & Matthew C. Strecher: "Rebels With a Cause: A Cosmopolitan Examination of Haruki Murakami and Kazuo Ishiguro"
Megumi Yama: "Haruki Murakami, Novel as a Method: 'Memory' and his Creative Process"
Ype De Boer: "Ethics of a Split Existence: Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World as a Poetico-Philosophical Experiment"
Amber A. Logan: "Haruki Murakami’s Non-Traditional Portrayals of Shadows and Doppelgängers"
Gemma Scammell: "The Cityscape and Haruki Murakami’s Despondent Characters: the use of magical realism in the creation of heterotopic space"
Joseph Thomas Milburn: "Haruki Murakami and Carl Gustav Jung: A Post-Jungian Perspective"
Chikako Nihei: "Time for Spaghetti in Haruki Murakami’s Fiction: What Cooking Time Means in a Consumerist Society"
Part II: Reflections (short articles)
Matthew C. Strecher: "Seeking the Living Among the Dead: The Other World of Murakami Haruki"
Olaf Schiedges: "A spatial approach to the fictional world of Murakami Haruki"
Karen Connie M. Abalos-Orendain: "Layered Frameworks: Thoughts on Japanese-ness and the Cosmopolitanism of Haruki Murakami"
Jonathan Dil: "Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy: Stories from the Second Basement" (author introduction)
Masaki Mori: "Haruki Murakami and His Early Work: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Running Artist" (author introduction)
Gitte Marianne Hansen & Joseph Thomas Milburn: "Research on Haruki Murakami: Past, Present, and Future" (Interview with Dr Gitte Marianne Hansen)
Midori Tanaka Atkins: "Killing Commendatore Book Review: From Boku to Watashi, Healing on Canvas and in the Darkness of the Pit"
Ken Lawrence: "Murakami Pilgrimage Reflections: How Murakami’s Fiction Makes the Mundane Magical"
Eric Siercks: "Just Like Breathing: Celebrating the Opening of the Haruki Murakami Library"