Shunsuke Tsurumi

Shunsuke Tsurumi (鶴見 俊輔, Tsurumi Shunsuke, June 25, 1922 – July 20, 2015) was a Japanese historian[1] and philosopher.

After graduating from Harvard University, an A.B., Honors Harvard University[2] in 1942, he was deported on a personnel exchange vessel with his sister Tsurumi Kazuko, Takeda Kiyoko, and Maruyama Masao.[3] Tsurumi taught at Kyoto University.

In 1946, he started the magazine Shiso-no Kagaku ("Science of Thought") with six other people including those who were on board the same deportation vessel with him Takeda, Maruyama and his sister Kazuko. He was a member of the anti-Vietnam War group Beheiren. Shiso no kagaku was among numerous magazines popped up post-war period, when common people wanted to express themselves. It was unique as it accepted essays from anybody with no discrimination on the authors' academic or sociological background, not limited to politically active students, and printed those on their pages written by nurses, teachers, or social workers for poor factory areas in Tokyo.[4] Tsutsumi was the chief editor of Shiso no kagaku, which editors freely discussed on their theme and selection of articles for each issue.[5]

He was one of the first students of Willard Van Orman Quine. He died on July 20, 2015 of pneumonia in Kyoto, Japan.[6] Also thought as a literature and philosophy historian, he wrote several books and articles:

  • An Experiment in Common Man's Philosophy[7]
  • Ideology and Literature in Japan (1980)
  • Japanese conceptions of Asia. Papers of the Japanese Studies Centre. 5. Melbourne: Japanese Studies Centre. 1982.[8]
  • An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan, 1931-1945. 1986.[9][10]

References
  1. "Freedom of Religion". Josei Toda. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  2. Tsurumi's dissertation at Harvard University; Pragmatism of William James (Book, 1942) [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 77001389.
  3. Shisogakusha Takeda Kiyoko-shi (2015-07-31). "Chigau bunka soncho wo (Senso to Watakushi)" [To respect different culture (Me and the War)]. Interviews on the 70th year Post-war. The Nikkei.
  4. Takeda Kiyoko (2014-05-16). "日本の地下水" [Groundwater of Japan]. ２０１４年度「知の巨人たち」ひとびとの哲学を見つめて～鶴見俊輔と「思想の科学」～ (5). NHK. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  5. Takeda Kiyoko (2014-05-16). "雑誌「思想の科学」創刊" [Magazine 'Shiso no kagaku' was published]. 戦後史証言プロジェクト : 日本人は何をめざしてきたのか ２０１４年度「知の巨人たち」ひとびとの哲学を見つめて～鶴見俊輔と「思想の科学」～ (1). NHK. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  6. "obituary : Shunsuke Tsurumi, philosopher and leading anti-war activist, dies at 93". Asahi shinbun. 2015-01-24. Archived from the original on 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  7. "An Experiment in Common Man's Philosophy (Article, 1951) [WorldCat.org]". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 12 (2 (19511201)): 246–264. doi:10.2307/2103481. JSTOR 2103481. OCLC 5545308253.
  8. Japanese conceptions of Asia (Book, 1982) [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 10783108.
  9. An Intellectual history of wartime Japan, 1931-1945 (Book, 1986) [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 807518994.
  10. Miriam Silverberg (1988). "An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan, 1931–1945. By Shunsuke Tsurumi". The Journal of Asian Studies. 47 (3 (19880823)): 654–656. doi:10.2307/2057041. JSTOR 2057041.
  11. Distributed by Methuen. A cultural history of postwar Japan, 1945-1980 (Book, 1987) [WorldCat.org]. London: KPI. OCLC 15984130.
  12. Book Review: A Cultural History of Postwar Japan, 1945-1980. (Article, 1988) [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 5545593614.
  13. Book Review: A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945-1980 (Article, 1988) [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 5549197466.
  14. Japanese kokoro. (Book, 2001) [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 314846208.


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