From Community to Time-Space Development: Comparing N. S. Trubetzkoy, Nishida Kitaro, and Watsuji Tetsuro

Author: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten

Source: Asian Philosophy, Volume 17, Number 3, November 2007 , pp. 263-282(20)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

I introduce and compare Russian and Japanese notions of community and space. Some characteristic strains of thought that exist in both countries had similar points of departure, overcame similar problems and arrived at similar results. In general, in Japan and Russia, the nostalgia for the community has been strong because one felt that in society through modernization something of the particularity of one's culture had been lost. As a consequence, both in Japan and in Russia allusions to the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies' book Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft are frequent. In the end I associate the Japanese as well as the Russian ideas with neo-Darwinian versions of the theme of evolution as it has been developed by Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09552360701708720

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