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A symposium entitled : Assimilation of Sartrean philosophy in Japan: The state of pre-existentialist literature WITH Kenzaburo oye

Today on (Sep 30, 2032) in the presence of the head of departments and lecturer a symposium entitled (Assimilation of Sartrean philosophy in Japan: The state of pre-existentialist literature WITH Kenzaburo oye), was presented by Assistant Professor (Dr. Ahmad Abdulkareem Shaban) from the English department, Where it has been explainedThe seminar analyzes the influence of Sartrean existentialist philosophy on two early novels by Kenzaburo Aoi: “The Prisoner” (1957) and “Scatter the Seeds” and the novel “Shoot the Children”, The philosophical body of existentialism retched to Japan at a crucial historical moment, when the intellectual class needed it. The Japanese, after the shock caused by the war, sought solutions in Western doctrines, outside the territories desolate Japan in the immediate post-war period. 
And In its French form, over half a century French existentialism was gradually absorbed by writers of that era, although we have focused on (Aoi) state and pre-existential stage, where this adaptation process can be clearly observed. 
And as an example, for Japanese thinkers nowadays, existentialism serves to form individual identity through new standards, of a physical and material nature, through which they began to become a conscience of freedom for Kenzaburo life’s project.

, a set of questions and answers were raised on this subject.