The Pacific War and the Kyoto School
Samedi 27 octobre 2015, 14h30-16h30La salle 5.28
I.N.A.L.C.O. - Pôle des Langues et Civilisations 65, rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris Métro 14 et RER C : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand Sortie : rue des Grands Moulins.
Résumé :
Seventy years have passed since the Pacific War as a part of the Second World War came to an end on August 15th 1945. Since this end of the war, the philosophers of the Kyoto-School were accused of their collaboration with the military regime in reference to some of their publications and opinions that they had expressed during the war. Since then, for more than half a century, the attack against the Kyoto-School is still continued part by the so-called “liberals,” that is in fact, left-orientated intellectuals. It is generally forgotten that during the war these philosophers were also attacked severely by the “ultra-right” nationalists because of their attitudes against the colonial- and invasion war as well as against nationalism.
