2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on the Problem of Identity in the Intellectual History in Modern Japan
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13610044
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of thought
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| Research Institution | Gifu University |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUDA Masao Gifu University, Faculty of Regional Studies, Professor, 地域科学部, 教授 (10144099)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2003
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| Keywords | Modern Japan / History of ideas / Subjectivity / Identity / Religion / Watsuzi Tetsuro / Miki Kiyoshi |
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| Research Abstract |
A problem of national and cultural identity was an indispensable issue in the intellectual history of modern Japan. A problem of identity is not always an important matter in a history of ideas. This problem is brought to light in a combination of various historical conditions. But the conditions which modern Japan was put on made a problem of identity a central issue. Japanese modernization has been realized as a process of westernization. Moreover, the speed of rapid modernization in Japan made the harmony with old tradition very difficult. It was a serious task to create a new figure of human being which is neither the pattern of westernization nor the traditional pattern. This study is to investigate the problem of cultural and national identity in modern Japan around two points of the following. (1)Many thinkers has grappled with this problem. Their efforts are classified in the type. (2)Two famous philosophers, Watsuzi Tetsuro and Miki Kiyoshi, were specially examined and made clear that the problem of national and cultural identity was in the core of the formation of their thoughts.
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