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The Japanese National Culture and the Japanese Identity in the Works of the Philosophers of the Twentieth Century

Vostok/Oriens '2015, №4

 
At the late twentieth century, both in Japan and in the West there were held conferences on the problem of the Japanese cultural identity. They cast light upon insufficiency of the simplifying dichotomist approach to the problems of cultural identity, strongly criticized by Sugiyama-Lebra Takie and Hamaguchi Eshun. The article focuses on cultural studies of eminent philosopher Nishida Kitaro (1870–1945) and his approach to Japanese identity.

Keywords: Japanese culture, nihonjin ron, nihon bunka ron, Nishida Kitaro, Sugiyama-Lebra Takie, Hamaguchi Eshun

Pages: С. 85–95