culture

heterolingual address

nationality

Japanese

university professor

Cornell University

innovator in the field of

comparative literature

critical theory

East Asian studies

globalization

ideology

Japan studies

nationalism

is appealed to as an excuse not to think through the uneasiness one feels with an existing view.

The trouble is that disagreement with the existing modes of thought is explained away solely in terms of the Orient's or Japan's cultural differences. The concept of culture is appealed to as an excuse not to think through the uneasiness one feels with an existing view. This is a feature exclusive not to Watsuji but to culturalism in general. (Sakai 1991 : 161)

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