Tetsuro & Watsuji Berque Augustine (trans.) Fûdo. The human environment
Paris, CNRS Editions, 2011. 330 pages, 14 x 22 cm, softcover. - 9782271071378
Augustin Berque is Director Study at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. It was in 2009 the first westerner to receive the Grand Prize for Fukuoka Asian cultures.
Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960) is one of the biggest names in contemporary Japanese philosophy. Fûdo, his major work, analyzing the specific relationship between culture and environment. The view of Watsuji is radically new. Setting aside the environmental determinism, which sees outside the relationship between nature and culture, it stands in contrast to a hermeneutic point of view: it Inside it captures the way men live their environments and how their creations express this relationship. Watsuji pioneering work done there. Besides its theoretical construction, that crystallizes the revolutionary concept of fûdosei (mediance), the text is an extraordinary diving Watsuji intuitive in the experience of the human environment, the cool mornings of spring Japanese dreary winter days to Western Europe, through the vast plains of northern China, the dampness of the nights of Singapore, the gaunt mountains of the Arabian desert, the waters too "dry" from the Mediterranean ...
Augustin Berque is Director Study at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. It was in 2009 the first westerner to receive the Grand Prize for Fukuoka Asian cultures.
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