Sublime

founding members of Yuibutsuron Kenkyūkai, or the Study Group of Materialism (hereafter Yuiken, as the group was called).

This book is as much a history of the discourse of science as it is a history of nationalism and modernity in interwar and wartime Japan.

“The Humanitarian Principle: Any of the above, but with the condition that the first priority be to cause no hurt.” 25 This is the justification for censoring certain ideas that are believed to cause psychological pain, “epistemic violence,” or the erasure of certain groups of human beings—an argument found throughout Social Justice scholarship and

Denial is only a technique for concentration on spiritual matters.

Steve wondered aloud at lunch about what Japanese psychology might look like if Japanese researchers had developed their own version of this discipline, without first importing Western concepts, interests, and emphases.

We survived because of our resilience, which was also passed down from one generation to the next.

Yuiken leader Tosaka’s charting of three political currents in mid-1930s Japan: liberalism, Marxism, and Japanism (Nihon shugi), which Tosaka defined as the Japanese version of fascism.

applying the Exodus model in our time as he applied it in his. Following

Some proponents of the new “moi criticism” began writing full-fledged academic autobiographies,