Mori Arimasa

Mori Arimasa ( Japanese 森 有 正 ; born November 30, 1911 in Yodobashi , Tokyo Prefecture (today: Nishi-Shinjuku ); † October 18, 1976 in Paris ) was a Japanese philosopher and literary critic.

Mori taught French philosophy and literature at the University of Tokyo from 1948 to 1950 , then for almost thirty years at the Paris Institute national des langues et civilizations orientales . He wrote u. a. Dekaruto no ningenzō (Descartes' image of man, 1948), Dosutoēfusukī oboegaki (About Dostoevsky, 1950), Babiron no nagare no hotori nite (On the shores of Babylon, 1957) and Uchimura Kanzō (1958). Between 1878 and 1982 a fifteen-volume complete edition of his works Mori Arimasa zenshū was published .

literature

• Shūichi Katō : "A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World" , University of California Press, 1999, ISBN 9780520219793 , p. 169.

Individual evidence

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Mori is the family name, Arimasa the first name.