Philosophy and Reception
Yoshimoto is a wide-ranging author who has written on literature, subculture, politics, society, religion (including Shinran and the New Testament).
Yoshimoto is known as a giant of postwar thought, and had an enormous influence in the 1960s and 1970s in Japan. He has published many dialgoues with overseas intellectuals visiting Japan, such as Michael Foucault, Félix Guattari, Ivan Illich, and Jean Baudrillard.
Yoshimoto, who does not hold an academic pedigree, has supported intellectuals who have devoted themselves to solitary study.
There have been many critiques of Yoshimoto's thought on this basis. He has also engaged in a number of perhaps excessively belligerent exchanges. Famous among these have been his dispute with Hanada Kiyoteru, with New Testament scholar Tagawa Kenzo, and his former friend and critic Haniya Yutaka.
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