Yuibutsuron Kenkyūkai

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The Yuibutsuron kenkyūkai ( Japanese 唯物論 研究 会 , Yuiken for short ) was a research group founded in 1932 by Tosaka Jun , Saigusa Hiroto and Oka Kunio .

Alignment

In order to avoid controls under the Law for the Maintenance of Public Security , it was established with the aim of general research on materialism without taking the form of a group of Marxists, including scholars who did not necessarily hold the point of view of Marxism (e.g. B. Terada Torahiko, physicist). Nevertheless, the group was urged to disband in 1938.

history

Although her active time was short, she had - through the publication of the Yuibutsuron zensho (Complete Writings on Materialism) - beyond the world of thought at that time, a great influence on the materialism research in post-war Japan. Her journal Yuibutsuron kenkyū (Research on Materialism) was published from November 1932 to the 65th edition in March 1938. After the dissolution, the successor magazine Geigaku (Science and Art) was published from the following April to November, but was then checked again and shortly before the publication of the December edition (74 issues in total) was confiscated by the responsible authorities and forced to discontinue. (A reprint is being published by Aoki Shoten, but there are no records of this December issue).

The objective thoughts from Tosaka Jun's influence and their clarity are the characteristics of the thinking of this research group.

Main members

  • Kunikawa Haruki
  • Mita Sekisuke
  • Ishiwara Atsushi (Jun)
  • Iwasaki Akira
  • Oka Kunio
  • Kakehashi Akihide
  • Gushima Kanesaburō
  • Gozai Yoshishige
  • Koyama Kōken
  • Saigusa Hiroto
  • Tosaka Jun
  • Nagata Hiroshi
  • Hattori Shisō
  • Honda Shūrō
  • Mori Koichi

literature

  • Gozai Yoshishige: Senjika no Yuibutsuronshatachi (materialists in wartime). Aoki Shoten, 1982. ( ISBN 4-250-82051-3 )
  • Editing of the "Quarterly Yuibutsuron kenkyū" (Hg): Shōgen: Yuibutsuron kenkyūkai jiken to tennōsei (Testimony: The Yuiken Incident and the Tennō System). Shinsensha, 1989. ( ISBN 4-787-78909-0 )