Shunsuke Tsurumi

Shunsuke Tsurumi (鶴見 俊輔, Tsurumi Shunsuke, born June 25, 1922) is a Japanese historian^[1] and philosopher.

After graduating from Harvard University in 1942, he taught at Kyoto University. In 1946, he started the magazine Shiso-no Kagaku ("Science of Thought"). He was a member of the anti-Vietnam War group Beheiren.

He was one of the first students of Willard Van Orman Quine.

Also thought as a literature and philosophy historian, he wrote several books:

• Ideology and Literature in Japan (1980)

• A Cultural History of Postwar Japan, 1945-1980 (1987)

• An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan, 1931-1945 ( 1986)

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