What Is "God" in the Country of "Gods"? : The Lack of Transcendence in the Teaching of Kokugo(<Special Issue>The 65th JLA Conference (1st Day): Unearthing "Contexts": Literary Education and Postmodernism)

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  • <神々>の国で、<神>を問う : 「国語教育」問題(<特集>日本文学協会第65回大会(第一日目) <文脈>を掘り起こす-ポスト・ポストモダンと文学教育の課題)
  • 〈神々〉の国で、〈神〉を問う--「国語教育」問題
  • カミガミ ノ クニ デ カミ オ トウ コクゴ キョウイク モンダイ

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Metaphorically speaking, this country is a strange place where so many "gods" coexist in a peaceful fashion, almost unaware of each other. In other words, the country of "gods" decidedly lacks the notion of "God," that is, something transcendental. Probably this peculiar situation is one of the major factors in the confusion of postwar Japan. But now we can't afford to be content with it any longer, for in the age of globalization we are required to have "God" who can stand on equal terms with other "Gods" all over the world. It is not until we seriously deal with this problem that we can have any clear prospect of the postmodern. Here from this viewpoint I will consider the teaching of kokugo while critically referring to the works of Seiji Takeda, Keiichi Noe, Minoru Tanaka, and others.

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