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The philosophy of a tourist

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The philosophy of a tourist
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Independent Japanese philosopher and cultural critic Azuma Hiroki (b. 1971) sees in the figure of the tourist a metaphor for the Other, a symbol of incompleteness, chance and openness – a way of being that can become a response to the challenges of a world where globalization and nationalism do not so much oppose each other as strangely coexist; a world of crisis of the public and private, one’s own and someone else’s… In line with the very subject of the study, the author refuses to try to build a homogeneous theory, but combines philosophical analysis, essays, mathematics, trips to Chernobyl and observations of everyday life. Through reflections on tourism, family, the phenomenon of the “uncanny”, secondary creativity, interfaces and Dostoevsky, Azuma builds a speculative map of modernity, where chance becomes not a threat, but a condition for the birth of something new. “The Philosophy of the Tourist” is not a book “about the tourist”, but a book that invites us to think “like a tourist”: freely and informally, for the sake of a new understanding of solidarity.
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