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Selected bibliography

2015

• (co-written with Zygmunt Bauman) "Practices of Selfhood", Cambridge: Polity Press.
• ‘Casting off the bonds of karma: Watsuji, Shinran and Dōgen on the problem of free will’. Journal of Japanese Philosophy, vol.3.
• ‘Dōgen’s Idea of Buddha-Nature: Dynamism and Non-Referentiality’. Asian Philosophy 25(1): 1-14.

2014

• 'Identity, Difference and Cultural Worlds'. In Lang, V. & Kull, K. (eds) Estonian Approaches to Culture Theory. Tartu: University of Tartu Press.
• ‘What is Japanese about Japanese Philosophy?’ In Rethinking “Japanese Studies”, ed.by Mayuko Sano and Liu Jianhui. Kyoto: Nichibunken.

2013

• "Mis on kultuur?" [What is culture?] Tallinn: Tallinn University Press. 456p.

• ‘Thinking with Dōgen: reading philosophically into and beyond the textual surface’. In Whither Japanese Philosophy, ed.by Nakajima Takahiro, Tōkyō: UTCP.

• Natsukashisa no anatomī’. In Nihonbungaku kara no hihyō riron: kioku, sōki, bōrei, ed.by Ando Tōru, Kimura Saeko and Takagi Makoto, Tōkyō: Kasamashoin.

2012

• "The Existential Moment: Rethinking Dogen's Theory of Time". Philosophy East and West, 62(2), 153-173.
• "The Gloomiest of Destinies? Intellectuals and Power in East-Central Europe". Donskis, Leonidas (ed.). Yet another Europe after 1984 (205 - 215). Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi.

2011

• "Inside the Concept: Rethinking Dogen’s Language". Asian Philosophy, 2, 123–137.
• "Subjektsus" (Subjectivity). In Tamm, Marek (ed.) Humanitaarteaduste metodoloogia (Methodology of the Humanities), Tallinn University Press 2011

2010

• (co-edited with James Heisig): Classical Japanese Philosophy. Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy No 7, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture

2009

• "Kultuuriline universalism vs relativism" (Cultural universalism vs relativism), Vikerkaar No 1/2, 138-42.

2008

• "An investigation of the conditions of literary borrowings in late Heian and early Kamakura Japan". Cox, Rupert (ed.). The Culture of Copying in Japan (143 - 155). London and New York: Routledge.

2007

• Japan and Asian Modernities, ed.by Raud, Rein, London and New York: Kegan Paul International, with contributions by: Michael Pye, Bart Gaens, Takaaki Suzuki, Huh Donghyn and Vladimir Tikhonov, Hiroko Willcock, Genzo Yamamoto, Marcus Oedewald, Rupert Cox, Eric Milliot, Wai-keung Chung, and Danny Unger, and an introduction as well as a chapter entitled "A Comparative Analysis of Challenge Discourses: "Overcoming Modernity" and the "Asian Values" Debate" by me.

2006

• Traditions and Tendencies: A Reply to Carine Defoort. Philosophy East and West, 56(4), 661 - 664.
• Philosophies vs Philosophy: In Defense of a Flexible Definition. Philosophy East and West, 56(4), 618 - 625.

2004

• “‘Place’ and ‘being-time’: spatiotemporal concepts in the thought of Nishida Kitaro and Dogen Kigen”. Philosophy East and West, 54(1), 29 - 51.
• "The Conditions for a Multicultural Estonia". Subrenat, Jean-Jacques (ed.). Estonia : Identity and Independence (257 - 268). Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi
• "Identity, Difference and Cultural Worlds". Lotman, Mihhail (ed.). Kultuuri maailmad = Cultural Worlds (84 - 103). Tallinn: Eesti Humanitaarinstituut

2003

• "The Heian Literary System: A Tentative Model". Hockx, Michel and Smits, Ivo (eds.). Reading East Asian Writing : The limits of literary theory (92 - 116). London and New York: Routledge.
• "Narrative and Poetic Progression: The Logic of Associativity". Sekine, Eiji (ed.). Japanese Poeticity and Narrativity Revisited (54 - 65). West Lafayette, IN: AJLS

• "The genesis of the logic of immediacy". Asian Philosophy, 3-4, 131 - 143.

2002

• “Objects and Events: linguistic and philosophical notions of ‘thingness’”. Asian Philosophy, 12(2), 97 - 108.

2000

• "Keel ja kultuuriline Teine" (Language and the cultural Other), Vikerkaar No 2/3, 148-51.

1999

• "The Impossibility of Form". Talvet, Jüri (ed.). World Poetry in the Postmodern Age (82 - 92). Tartu: Tartu University Press
• "The Lover's Subject: Its Construction and Relativisation in the Waka Poetry of the Heian Period". Sekine, Eiji (ed.). Love and Sexuality in Japanese Literature (65 - 78). West Lafayette, Ind.: AJLS

1998

• "Cultural identity and cultural conflict", Dvarionas, M. (ed.) Cultural Pluralism and Culture of Peace. Vilnius.

1997

• (co-authored with Mikko Lagerspetz): Cultural Policy in Estonia. Strasbourg, Council of Europe.

1996

• "Waka and renga Theory: Shifts in the Conceptual Ground" Oriens Extremus, (96-118)

1994

• The role of poetry in classical Japanese literature : a code and discursivity analysis. Tallinn: Eesti Humanitaarinstituut