著者

岩澤 知子 Tomoko Iwasawa

出版者

Journal for the Comparative Study of Civilizations

雑誌

比較文明研究 = Journal for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISSN:13422650)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, pp.71-87, 2012-06-25

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This essay provides an analysis of historical examples that show how difficult it is to realize intercultural understanding. The focus here will be the case of US-Japan communication both during and after World War II. The essay will comparatively analyze two studies of Japanese culture developed by American scholars in the 1940s,Ruth Benedict’s The Chrysanthemum and the Sword and Helen Mears’Mirror for Americans, Japan,asking whether or not we can find in these two authors’use of reason the realization of “dialogical act of reason,”which alone enables boundless communication between different cultures and civilizations.