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Kuki Shuzo (Japanese九 鬼 周 造; * February 15, 1888 in the prefecture of Tokyo, † May 6, 1941 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese philosopher and university professor.
Biography
Shuzo was the fourth child of Baron Kuki Ryuichi (九 鬼 隆 一), an official of the Ministry of Education ( Mombu - shō ). As Kukis mother Hatsuko, became pregnant and fell in love with Okakura Kakuzo, also known as Okakura Tenshin, appeared on the baseless rumor that Okakura Kukis could be father. Nevertheless, Okakura, the Kuki, after the separation and divorce of the parents visited often, be considered as a model, the Kuki has influenced. While he owes Okakura his fascination with aesthetics and probably also for foreign languages, his interest in Japanese pleasure quarters is probably due to the fact that his mother has even once worked as a geisha.
At the age of 23 years in 1911 Shuzo was baptized and converted to Catholicism in order. After graduating in philosophy from the University of Tōkyō he spent eight years in Europe to deepen his knowledge of languages and his studies of contemporary Western thought. At the University of Heidelberg, he studied with the neo- Kantian Heinrich Rickert, and committed Eugen Herrigel as a tutor. At the University of Paris, he met Henri Bergson and know his work and hired the young Jean -Paul Sartre as a French tutor.
Outside of Japan, is little known that Kuki Jean Paul Sartre aroused interest in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. At the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg Kuki studied under Edmund Husserl 's phenomenology, where he met personally in Husserl's house for the first time, Martin Heidegger. Later he went to the University of Marburg to hear Heidegger's lectures on Kant and to participate in the seminar " Schelling's essay on the nature of human freedom." Fellow students during their stay in Europe were Watsuji Tetsuro Miki Kiyoshi and.
Shortly after his return to Japan, he wrote and published his major work " The Structure of Iki " (1930 ), with whom he inspired generations of Japanese writers and thinkers. In this work he performs a phenomenological analysis of Iki and stated that Iki is a core value / part of Japanese culture. He taught at the University of Kyoto, an outstanding center for conservative cultural values and ways of thinking. His first lectures focused on Descartes and Bergson.
In 1933 he became a Privatdozent. In the same year he published the first extended study of Heidegger in Japanese language. In March 1934 he habilitated professor of philosophy. The following year, he published the "problem of contingency " (偶然 性 の 問題, Gūzensei no mondai ), in which his personal experiences during their stay in Europe and the influences were incorporated with Heidegger. His lectures on Heidegger at the University of Kyoto were in 1939 under the title, published "Man and Existence" (人間 と 実存, Ningen to jitsuzon ).
1941 Kuki died from the effects of peritonitis. Kuki is buried as well Tanizaki Jun'ichirô in the temple complex Hōnen'in in Kyoto. On his grave stone is engraved a verse from Goethe's Wanderer's Night Song.