Douglas Lummis

C. Douglas Lummis is a writer, former professor at Tsuda College in Tokyo[1] and former U.S. Marine.[2]

Life

Lummis was born in 1936 in San Francisco. He attended UC Berkeley on a Navy ROTC contract, and later did three years active duty in the Marines - the last year in Okinawa.[3] He retired from teaching at Tsuda College in 2000.[3]

Lummis' writings - many of which concern Japan's relationship to the United States - are extremely critical of US foreign policy.[2][4] His works include the books Radical Democracy, A New Look at The Chrysanthemum and the Sword and Japan's Radical Constitution.[3][5] He has also published numerous pieces in journals such as The Nation[6] and Japan Focus.[2]

Critical reception

Susan Sontag has called Lummis "one of the most thoughtful, honorable, and relevant intellectuals writing about democratic practice anywhere in the world,"[3] while Karel van Wolferen has referred to him as an "eminent observer of the American-Japanese vassalage relationship."[4]

Lummis' ideas have been criticized by Francis Fukuyama and others in Foreign Affairs and other journals.[7]

Bibliography
  • Charles Douglas Lummis, Sang-jung Kang, and Toshihito Kayano. Kokka to Aidentiti wo Tou [An Inquiry into the State and Identity] (in Japanese). Iwanami Shoten, 2009.
  • Charles Douglas Lummis. Radical Democracy. Cornell University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8014-8451-3

References
  1. Sung-won Suh. Book Review Global Asia: A Journal of the East Asia Foundation, Fall, 2010
  2. Japan Focus: Douglas Lummis japanfocus.org
  3. Radical Democracy book ecobooks.com
  4. Karel van Wolferen. "The most monstrous lie of the twenty-first century" karelvanwolferen.com, jottings, articles, books, 19 Sep. 2011
  5. Douglas Lummis. "Round up The Usual Suspects...and Shoot Them" counterpunch, WEEKEND EDITION, MAY 11-13, 2011
  6. Author Bios: C. Douglas Lummis thenation.com
  7. Francis Fukuyama. "Radical Democracy, C. Douglas Lummis" Foreign Affairs, September/October, 1996
    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.