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On Understanding the Others
2009
Overview
What can be learned from other “cultures” about life and death? Can the Others truly be known, except by a rough approximation, especially when there are profound differences in language involved that are likely to elude translators? Is it primarily, or most reliably, about Ourselves that we learn when we study Others?
The point of departure, for our purposes here, is the Yukio Mishima short story “Patriotism,” which describes what we would call a suicide pact between a Japanese Army lieutenant and his wife. A traditional Japanese mode of suicide is drawn upon by the young officer. Our interest in
