... when he is not causing a lot of fights on the net?? :-)

I seem to remembered reading about him a long time ago, but had to refresh my memory:

wikipedia Wrote:James W. Heisig is a philosopher who has specialized in the field of philosophy of religion. He has published several books, their topics ranging amongst the notion of God in Jungian psychology, the Kyoto School of Philosophy, and contemporary interreligious faith. He currently resides in Nagoya, Japan, where he continues to conduct research in the Nanzan Social and Religious Research Institute. He is also famed among students of the Japanese language for his Remembering the Kanji series.

Books

* Remembering the Kanji series (1977, 1987, 1994)
* Imago Dei: A Study of C. G. Jung's Psychology of Religion (Studies in Jungian thought) (1979)
* Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture) (2001)
* Heisig's profile page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Heisig

Very interesting, isn't it? No wonder there are hints at this in many of his stories and choice of keywords.

If it wasn't so expensive, I could consider buying Imago Dei: A Study of C. G. Jung's Psychology of Religion since Jung is one of my life long heroes.

Maybe Japanese isn't a goal unto itself. You know, it's a language, something you do stuff with.

Just out of curiousity, has ANYBODY here ever read any of Heisig's non-kanji books? If so, how were they?

I'm very curious about this also!

alyks Wrote:Maybe Japanese isn't a goal unto itself. You know, it's a language, something you do stuff with.

Yes. I use it to: Watch Dramas, Read Manga, Pick up Japanese women, Sing Karaoke.

edit: My fiance told me I'm no longer allowed to use Japanese to pick up Japanese women. Guess it's time to learn Korean.

Nukemarine Wrote:

alyks Wrote:Maybe Japanese isn't a goal unto itself. You know, it's a language, something you do stuff with.

Yes. I use it to: Watch Dramas, Read Manga, Pick up Japanese women, Sing Karaoke.

edit: My fiance told me I'm no longer allowed to use Japanese to pick up Japanese women. Guess it's time to learn Korean.

lol

All I know is apparently he is currently working on some translation project with one of my buddhism professors. I was going to try to use this professor to meet him when I took a two week trip to Japan last summer, but I think I'll just end up meeting him while I'm studying abroad this coming semester.

If I can get this set up I'll try to do a Q&A thing and I'll ask for questions here. Anyone up for that?

Ryuujin27 Wrote:If I can get this set up I'll try to do a Q&A thing and I'll ask for questions here. Anyone up for that?

That would be really cool

I'd personally like to know more about how he himself learned kanji and Japanese, what level he was at when he wrote the book etc.

Tobberoth Wrote:

Ryuujin27 Wrote:If I can get this set up I'll try to do a Q&A thing and I'll ask for questions here. Anyone up for that?

That would be really cool

I'd personally like to know more about how he himself learned kanji and Japanese, what level he was at when he wrote the book etc.

He pretty much lays that out in the introduction. It's a good read. And he used the method that we are using.

I would like to know why he decided to go to Japan. It seems like he could have studied/taught religion and philosophy at any university in his home country.

Tobberoth Wrote:

Ryuujin27 Wrote:If I can get this set up I'll try to do a Q&A thing and I'll ask for questions here. Anyone up for that?

That would be really cool

I'd personally like to know more about how he himself learned kanji and Japanese, what level he was at when he wrote the book etc.

You could read this:
http://www.kanjiclinic.com/riverainterview.htm

I am very curious as to what he thinks about the small cult following that seems to have grown around his kanji books. Did he ever think that so many people would use his books to study kanji? What does he think of this website and how technology has changed the way we use what he started?

Dragg Wrote:Just out of curiousity, has ANYBODY here ever read any of Heisig's non-kanji books? If so, how were they?

I read some paper by him when I was taking a course on Japanese religious literature I believe. It was about the same as any other paper on religious literature.

I've also got some friends who goto Nanzan university where he teaches (but are here on exchange), but they never heard of him.

Nukemarine Wrote:

alyks Wrote:Maybe Japanese isn't a goal unto itself. You know, it's a language, something you do stuff with.

Yes. I use it to: Watch Dramas, Read Manga, Pick up Japanese women, Sing Karaoke.

edit: My fiance told me I'm no longer allowed to use Japanese to pick up Japanese women. Guess it's time to learn Korean.

i can imagine somewhere in this crazy world there is a guy that is married to a white woman who is learning Japanese on the side so he can talk to his Japanese girlfriends on the phone etc. in his wife's presence without her ever knowing a thing

Hashiriya Wrote:

Nukemarine Wrote:

alyks Wrote:Maybe Japanese isn't a goal unto itself. You know, it's a language, something you do stuff with.

Yes. I use it to: Watch Dramas, Read Manga, Pick up Japanese women, Sing Karaoke.

edit: My fiance told me I'm no longer allowed to use Japanese to pick up Japanese women. Guess it's time to learn Korean.

i can imagine somewhere in this crazy world there is a guy that is married to a white woman who is learning Japanese on the side so he can talk to his Japanese girlfriends on the phone etc. in his wife's presence without her ever knowing a thing

Ok, damn, now the secret is out.

haha funny... i read the article from kanji clinic and thought it was really cool... i even have more respect for Heisig now... it's funny how people get stuck in their traditional ways and ignore any new ideas... i always try to keep an open mind and look out for anything that might help my studies myself...

I've read some of his [english] translations on Kyoto school philosophy etc. This was before i knew who he was or started using RTK

I imagine he's probably pretty tired of talking about stuff he did so long ago, and (apart from the royalty cheques from his kanji books) probably wishes we would leave him alone. Just a thought. ;-)

James Heisig is speaking at a seminar in Tokyo on June 21.

The event seems to be focused on the topic of publishing. The info below is taken from the following URL.
http://mediatectonics.com/uncategorized/...indle-age/

Quote:When you know just how much literary work Jim Heisig has produced, you wonder how he does it and whether he ever sleeps.

That’s because good-humored professor of the Faculty of Arts and Letters at Nanzan University has written, edited or translated nearly sixty books in ten languages, along with literally hundreds of other pieces. That output includes the 19-volume Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture and Essays in Japanese Philosophy series, A Study of C. G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion, and his acclaimed Remembering the Kanji series. Around two hundred thousand copies of the latter books are already out—including French, German and Spanish versions—and Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian and Polish editions are on the way. (Proposed translations into Esperanto and pig Latin, he notes, were unceremoniously rejected.)

Dr. Heisig will describe his working process, including how he teams up with translators to devise just the right examples and mnemonic devices for each language. He’ll also tell us some fascinating stories about what he does with his royalties.

The one thing I want to know is when RSH2 and RTH2 are coming out

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Thanks for sharing, DavidZ. That's in six days.. well sucks I'm not rich or I would have come just to listen to the man. "Publishing in the Post Kindle Age" looks very interesting too!

PPS: Thanks again, posted on site news.

It doesn't look like he'll be talking about anything particularly useful, but it'll be cool to see the man in action. I'm going!

I heard from someone on this forum, well a post that he would be releasing another book but this is for traditional Chinese characters. (This year,2010)

deathtrap Wrote:The one thing I want to know is when RSH2 and RTH2 are coming out

He was kind enough to respond to my inquiry on this last month. He replied that he and Tim are getting together this month to make a final push and ship it to the publishers, which would hopefully lead to a fall release.

rcloud Wrote:

deathtrap Wrote:The one thing I want to know is when RSH2 and RTH2 are coming out

He was kind enough to respond to my inquiry on this last month. He replied that he and Tim are getting together this month to make a final push and ship it to the publishers, which would hopefully lead to a fall release.

And you were kind enough to respond to my inquiry! thanks