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:

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