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Books Japan: Nature, Artifice and Japanese Culture Similar People Jacques Berque, Tetsuro Watsuji, Roger - Alain | ||
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Augustin Berque (born 1942 in Rabat, Morocco), is a French geographer, Orientalist and philosopher. He is the son of the famous Egyptologist Jacques Berque. He is professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (EHESS). His specialist field of interest is Japan.
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- Concepts
- Major works
- Prizes
- References
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Concepts
Berque has developed an extensive array of concepts in order to grasp the complex nature of relations between natural and physical objects and the way we conceive of nature. He insists on intermediation, introducing a new concept (Médiance in French). His more theoretical work relies on the concept of oecumene, which he uses after Plato and quite distinctly from the sense proposed by Derrida. He has also worked on landscapes by comparing the different visions of the world that are mirrored by a specific landscape.
Major works
Augustin Berque's work has not been widely translated into English.
