Gordana Jovanović, Lars Allolio-Näcke & Carl Ratner (Eds.). (2018). The Challenges of Cultural Psychology: Historical Legacies and Future Responsibilities. New York, NY: Routledge.
実物をまだ手にしていないのですが、カラフルでいい感じの装丁ですよね。ちなみに、私が分担したのは以下の章になります。
Shogo Tanaka
Chapter 17: The self in Japanese culture from an embodied perspective
身体化された自己の観点から、日本文化における自己の問題を論じています。出版社向けのプロポーザルに収録されたアブストラクトは出版された書籍のなかに収録されなかったようなので、ここに転載しておきます。いわゆる「西洋的自己－非西洋的自己」という二分法ではなく、身体的自己が文化的コンテクストによって個人主義的なものにも集合的なものにも生成しうる点を強調した論考です。内容に関心のある方はぜひ本書を手にとってみてください。
[Abstract]
The main aim of this paper is to consider the self in Japanese culture from an embodied perspective. Since early 1990’s, the discourses on the embodied mind have brought a radical change in the sciences of mind, including the notion of the self. In the following argument, first, I briefly describe the basic aspects of the embodied self, the notion of which was derived from the embodied mind paradigm. Then, I examine the discourse on the self in cross-cultural psychology that focuses on the differences in the self between the West and East, including Japanese culture. In the extant literature, it is widely acknowledged that the self in Eastern (or more widely, non-Western) cultures has the characteristics of being “interdependent” and “collective” in comparison with that in Western cultures. In addition to this, the self in Japanese culture has been described as “relationship dependent.” Finally, I give an account of the same characteristics from an embodied perspective in order to find a path to an understanding of the self beyond cultural dichotomies, such as “Western” and “Eastern.” If the self is inevitably embodied, such a self could be constituted as either “individual” or “collective,” “independent” or “interdependent,” regardless of the cultural background.
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