Shunsuke Tsurumi

Shunsuke Tsurumi (鶴見 俊輔, Tsurumi Shunsuke, June 25, 1922 – July 20, 2015) was a Japanese historian^[1] and philosopher.

After graduating from Harvard University in 1942, he taught at Kyoto University. In 1946, he started the magazine Shiso-no Kagaku ("Science of Thought"). He was a member of the anti-Vietnam War group Beheiren.

He was one of the first students of Willard Van Orman Quine. He died on July 20, 2015 of pneumonia in Kyoto, Japan.^[2]

Also thought as a literature and philosophy historian, he wrote several books:

• Ideology and Literature in Japan (1980)
• A Cultural History of Postwar Japan, 1945-1980 (1987)
• An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan, 1931-1945 ( 1986)

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