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Philosophy and crisis are linked. It is either a crisis of the self or crisis in a culture. Whenever things stop appearing natural and whenever we must prove ourselves or our way of life philosophy begins to come to the surface. Woe to the time when true philosophy comes forth, because it is a time of crisis.

Sorry about the week break.  I finally have the next small part of Fumio Kaido’s Das Kapital Manga translated. Please click on the page numbers to get the full size version of the pages.  Enjoy!

I have finished translating the first part of the very long second chapter including the first commentary of Fumio Kaido’s manga version of Das Kapital.  For the first two parts check here and here.  Click on the page numbers to get the full size version.

I have finally completed the rest of chapter 1 of Fumio Kaido’s manga version of Das Kapital.  Chapter one is basically a very short very quick summary of Marx’s life up to his writing of Capital. The first part of chapter 1 was posted previously here.  Click on the page number to get the full [...]

This is the continuation of Honda Torus thoughts about love. Here he discusses the beginnings of the idea of romantic love in Japan. Imported “marriages of love” The culture of romantic love and marriages of love were imported into Japan during the Meiji era.  When the creator of “Women’s studies magazine”, Yoshiharu Iwamoto, called the [...]

I have decided to translate Fumio Kaido’s manga version of Das Kapital. It may take a while to get through but it will be a very interesting process. Here are the first seven pages. Click on the page number to see the image at full size. (I hope this crazy table plugin works…)

This is a continuation of Honda Torus thoughts on love and Christianity. Enjoy. The structure and function of love – Both stabilizing the self and formation ・ preservation of the family In brief romantic love (whenever mentioned hereafter will include marriages of love): Has it origins in the modern West as a replacement system for [...]

the origins of love reside in the spirit of chivalry in the European middle ages

This is a translation from Honda Torus book, Moeru Otoko. I am ashamed to admit right of the bat that I don’t quite know what to do with this title. “Moeing Man”? “The man who moes”? “Moe Man” i think is the best one that I could come up with.  If you are unfamiliar with [...]