Jun Tosaka Explained

Jun Tosaka
Native Name:戸坂 潤
Birth Date:27 September 1900
Birth Place:Tokyo, Japan
Death Place:Nagano, Japan
Nationality: Japan
Era:20th-century philosophy
Region:Japanese philosophy
School Tradition:
Academic Advisors:Nishida Kitarō
Main Interests:Critique, social criticism, historical materialism, anti-imperialism

[1] was a Shōwa era Kyoto-trained Japanese intellectual, and teacher. Some identify strands of Marxism in his later philosophy. His criticisms of governments and their war policies caused him to end up in prison on various occasions.[2]

Life

Jun Tosaka was born in Tokyo in 1900. Due to his mother's illness and his father's early death he was moved that same year with his nurse to live with his grandparents in the Ishikawa Prefecture on the western side of the country. In September 1905 he returned to Tokyo where he grew up with his mother in the city's Kanda quarter (today part of Chiyoda).

He attended Kyoto Imperial University. He was interested in the works of Nishida Kitaro, and Tanabe Hajime, neo-Kantianism, and then Marxism. He was a member of the Kyoto School. In 1938, he was arrested under the Peace Preservation Law. He died in Nagano Prison before the end of World War II.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tosaka Jun. Kotobanku. Asahi Shinbun. 4 February 2015. ja.
  2. Book: Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader . only a "sample chapter" is accessible here. Ken C. Kawashima. Fabian Schaefer. Robert Stolz. 2013. Cornell University (East Asia Program), NY. 978-1-933947-88-4. 2 June 2019.
  3. Book: Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume 2, 1600 to 2000 . Columbia University Press . William Theodore De Bary . 13 April 2005 . 932 .