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. It is posited that there is something tangible that can be
brought to the surface through the critical approaches of the contributors in this issue
broadly speaking this tangibility can be considered philosophical that there is some kind of
conceptual material at the core of Murakami's work or that his work is congenial to conceptual
activity which is relevant to readers who have a general interest in the humanities and social
sciences and of course in Murakami studies in particular. The special issue of ISN will
include pieces from renowned Murakami scholars who are working with his texts in different ways
topics include cosmopolitanism intertextuality gender ethics the divine representations of
the family the other world and the creative process of writing itself. Introductions to the
most recent publications on Murakami in the English-language (2019-2022) by the authors will
also be featured. Finally it is hoped that this special issue on Murakami will increase
philosophical and interdisciplinary participation with his work it may be the case that a few
budding divers will become interested in the critical activities presented in the articles
ready to hold their breath and dive into a Murakami-world.
