The human being : when philosophy meets history. Miki Kiyoshi, Watsuji Tetsuro and their quest for a New Ningen
Brivio, C.
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The Human Being: When Philosophy Meets History. Miki Kiyoshi, Watsuji Tetsurō and Their Quest for a New Ningen
1. We could consider medianity as a ‘morbid symptom’ of the empire to come.
(This thesis)
2. The destiny of the human being hence becomes the destiny and the mission of a whole nation.
(This thesis)
3. I believe that, if it had not been for the ‘crisis’, their human being would have never taken the form of ‘medianity’.
(This thesis)
4. It does not mean that philosophical ideas are not the products of their own historical contexts; it rather points at the fact that the collusion between the two cannot always be convenient for those interpreters who struggle to make sense of history.
(This thesis) 5. Is scholarship still an ecclesiastic practice?
(H. Harootunian and M. Miyoshi)
6. In a sense, such scholars are acting as ideologists rather then historians insofar as they are using intellectual history as a storehouse of political terms rather than political concepts.
(C. Goto-Jones)
7. In theory, there is an abyss between nationalism and imperialism; in practice, it can and has been bridged by tribal nationalism and outright racism.
(H. Arendt)
8. The awakening power of their truth is contained in the movement of thought, not in its goal. In other words, the goal is not something thinkable that can be attained by thinking; it subsists in turning thought to existential actuality.
(K. Jaspers) 9. Intelligence is a moral category.
(T. Adorno) 10. For every admirer is at bottom a most merciless and importunate critic.
(L. Shestov) 11. The demand to be loved is the greatest kind of arrogance.
(F. Nietzsche) 12. The conflation of subject and object is a political choice.
(C. Goto-Jones)
13. Higher student numbers do not translate into a higher level of education.
14. Each one of my students is worth 5 times 85 Euro, and my brain is worth 500.
15. Acquiring a language does not mean acquiring an identity.
16. The East is not a career.
Leiden, June 9, 2009
Chiara Brivio
