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We received a complimentary copy of a new publication from Sogensha.

2025.8.12

Title: Between Psychiatry and Philosophy: What Bin Kimura Thought

Edited by: Shintarō Shiba and Keiichi Noe

Authors: Kenjirō Fukao, Tōru Tani, Shun'ichi Noma, Tatsuya Higaki, and Takeshi Utsumi

Publisher: Sogensha (Published Aug. 2025)

Note: This volume was authored by psychiatrists and philosophers who personally studied under Professor Bin Kimura.
"From the understanding of illness, to the self, humanity, and life itself." "A gentle breeze of anthropological thought blowing through a world of psychiatry overly biased toward scientism." (Quoted from the book cover)

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The self can only become aware of itself as the self at the moment it encounters something other than itself. ... The self an d that which is not itself exist simultaneously , so to speak.Nishida Kitaro's famous line, "When the world becomes aware of itself , our self becomes awar e. When our self becomes aware of itself, the world becomes aware," points to this point. ... At the very moment when the self encounters something other than itself, like a sudden spark of fire, the self and that which is not itself arise from something . ... The individual is this something that is born from the encounter between the self and that which is not itself. This something exists before the individual . ... For the time being, I would like to express this something as "betwe en people."

Bin Kimura's
Words

The self can only become aware of itself as the self at the moment it encounters something other than itself. ... The self an d that which is not itself exist simultaneously , so to speak.Nishida Kitaro's famous line, "When the world becomes aware of itself , our self becomes awar e. When our self becomes aware of itself, the world becomes aware," points to this point. ... At the very moment when the self encounters something other than itself, like a sudden spark of fire, the self and that which is not itself arise from something . ... The individual is this something that is born from the encounter between the self and that which is not itself. This something exists before the individual . ... For the time being, I would like to express this something as "betwe en people."