Miki Kiyoshi

Miki Kiyoshi

Miki Kiyoshi ( Japanese 三 木 清 ; * January 5, 1897 in Hyōgo Prefecture ; † September 26, 1945 ) was a Japanese philosopher.

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Miki Kiyoshi studied philosophy at Kyōto University under Nishida Kitarō and Hatano Seiichi . From 1922 to 1925 he continued his education in Germany with Martin Heidegger , Heinrich Rickert and Karl Löwith . After returning to Japan in 1927 he became a professor at Hōsei University , where he taught Marxist philosophy, which he combined with ideas of existential philosophy . He worked closely with the historian Hani Gorō (羽 仁 五郎; 1901–1983).

Miki's preoccupation with Marxism led him to be arrested in 1930 under the 1925 Peace Preservation Law as a sympathizer of communism. He was jailed for six months and lost his professorship. He was then a senior member of the Shōwa study group that had been established in 1933 at the end of Konoe . In 1942, Miki was sent to Manila as an army journalist . But then he turned back to philosophy. In March 1945, Miki was arrested again, this time after taking in a communist. He died in prison in September, one month after the Pacific War ended .

Miki was an important philosopher before the Pacific War and, as a translator, editor and journalist, made many works of European philosophy and literature known in Japan. His writings include the "Notes on Philosophy" (哲学 ノ ー ト, Tetsugaku nōto).

literature

• Susan C. Townsend: Miki Kiyoshi 1897-1945 Japan's Itinerant Philosopher , Brill 2009, ISBN 978-9-00417-582-2
• S. Noma (Ed.): Miki Kiyoshi . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X . P. 960.
• Hunter, Janet: Miki Kiyoshi . In: Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Kodansha International, 1984. ISBN 4-7700-1193-8 . P. 128.

source

• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 630 (English, limited preview in the Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Miki is the family name, Kyoshi the first name.