An Essay of the Contextualism as the Ideology in the Age of Internationalization

コクサイカ ジダイ ニオケル カンジン シュギロン ノ イデオロギーセイ

Park, Yong-Ku

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

間人主義論

作為性

排他性

拡張性

internationalization

contextualism

artificiality

exclusiveness

expansiveness

In line with the increasing contacts of the Japanese people with the foreign cultures and people amid internationalization, there has again risen to the surface the question "Who are the Japanese (as compared to the Europeans)?" This question mark is a stimulus to setting up the identity of the Japanese adaptable to the age of internationalization. In answer to this demand, the contextualism generally known as a Japanese version of collectivism has been argued for. But an essay of the contextualism puts too much emphasis on the idiosyncrasy of Japanese culture and thus includes exclusiveness over other cultures, especially European culture, going so far as to argue for the expansion of superior Japanese culture so as to overcome the crisis of human civilization. In addition, the arguments for the idiosyncrasy and superiority are unscientific and artificial. In these respects, that is, exclusiveness, expansiveness, and artificiality, an essay of the contextualism takes on an ideological character corresponding to the age of Japanese internationalization. So far, however, most of the analyses on the ideological character of Japanese culture have focused on the artificiality and exclusiveness, but the ideological character of Japanese culture cannot be fully explained without bringing in the expansiveness of Japanese culture. Hence, this paper deals with the ideological character of an essay of the contextualism in the age of internationalization from the three points of the view, i. e. artificiality, exclusiveness and expansiveness.

英語