坂部恵、それから

某マイミクさんに教えられる。
『朝日』の記事；

東大名誉教授（哲学）の坂部恵さん死去2009年6月3日19時37分

　坂部　恵さん（さかべ・めぐみ＝東大名誉教授・哲学）が３日、神経膠芽（こうが）腫で死去、７３歳。通夜は８日午後７時、葬儀は９日午後１時３０分から東京都千代田区麹町６の５の１の聖イグナチオ教会で。喪主は妻玲子（れいこ）さん。

　カントなどの西洋哲学から出発し、幅広い視点で精神の基底を探る試みを続けた。著書に「仮面の解釈学」「理性の不安――カント哲学の生成と構造」など。「和辻哲郎」などでサントリー学芸賞（思想・歴史部門）を受けた。
http://www.asahi.com/obituaries/update/0603/TKY200906030325.html

初めて読んだのは『仮面の解釈学』か。拙blogを検索してみたら、『〈ふるまい〉の詩学』から２回引用している*1。実はこの書物、なかなかに難解で、読んでいてけっこう往生していたということがある。『朝日』の記事では言及されていないが、坂部氏の仕事で重要なのは「人称的世界の成立」に関する議論だろう。また、（『〈ふるまい〉の詩学』もそうなのだが）〈やまとことば〉で思考する哲学ということも。

仮面の解釈学 (UP選書 153)

〈ふるまい〉の詩学

また、

俳優デビッド・キャラダインさん自殺か　キル・ビル出演2009年6月5日1時38分

　ＡＰ通信によると、デビッド・キャラダインさん（米俳優）が、バンコクのホテルで４日に遺体で発見された。７２歳。室内のカーテンのひもで首をつっていたといい、自殺の可能性が高い。

　俳優一家に育ち、７０年代のテレビ番組「燃えよ！　カンフー」に武術の達人役で出演して注目された。その後もクエンティン・タランティーノ監督の映画「キル・ビル」など１００本以上の作品に出演。父親は「駅馬車」に出演したジョン・キャラダイン。
http://www.asahi.com/obituaries/update/0605/TKY200906040377.html

USA Todayに載ったAPの記事；

'Kung Fu' star David Carradine found dead in Bangkok

BANGKOK (AP) — David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu whose career roared back to life when he played the assassin-turned-victim in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, was found dead Thursday in Thailand.
Police said he appeared to have hanged himself. He was 72.

The officer responsible for investigating the death said that Carradine had hanged himself with a cord used with the suite's curtains. It cited police as saying there was no sign that he had been assaulted.

Police said Carradine's body was taken to a hospital for an autopsy which would be carried out Friday.

Carradine was a leading member of a venerable Hollywood acting family that included his father, legendary character actor John Carradine (Stagecoach), and Oscar-winning brother Keith (Nashville).

In all, he appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby. One of his prominent early film roles was as singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic Bound for Glory.

But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series Kung Fu, which aired in 1972-75.

He reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.

He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga Kill Bill.

The character, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's Kill Bill — Vol. 1. In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates.

In Kill Bill — Vol. 2, released in 2004, Thurman's character comes face to face again with Bill himself. The role brought Carradine a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor.

Bill was a complete contrast to his TV character Kwai Chang Caine, the soft-spoken refugee from a Shaolin monastery, serenely spreading wisdom and battling bad guys in the Old West. He left after three seasons, saying the show had started to repeat itself.

After Kung Fu, Carradine starred in the 1975 cult flick Death Race 2000. He starred with Liv Ullmann in Bergman's The Serpent's Egg in 1977 and with his brothers in the 1980 Western The Long Riders.

But after the early 1980s, he spent two decades doing mostly low-budget films. Tarantino's films changed that.

"All I've ever needed since I more or less retired from studio films a couple of decades ago ... is just to be in one," Carradine told The Associated Press in 2004.

"There isn't anything that Anthony Hopkins or Clint Eastwood or Sean Connery or any of those old guys are doing that I couldn't do," he said. "All that was ever required was somebody with Quentin's courage to take and put me in the spotlight."

One thing remained a constant after Kung Fu: Carradine's interest in Oriental herbs, exercise and philosophy. He wrote a personal memoir called Spirit of Shaolin and continued to make instructional videos on tai chi and other martial arts.

In the 2004 interview, Carradine talked candidly about his past boozing and narcotics use, but said he had put all that behind him and stuck to coffee and cigarettes.

"I didn't like the way I looked, for one thing. You're kind of out of control emotionally when you drink that much. I was quicker to anger."

"You're probably witnessing the last time I will ever answer those questions," Carradine said. "Because this is a regeneration. It is a renaissance. It is the start of a new career for me.

"It's time to do nothing but look forward."

Contributing: Associated Press writer Polly Anderson in New York contributed to this report.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-06-04-carradine-obit_N.htm

以下は追悼というコンテクストに少し相応しくないかも知れないが。『燃えよ！　カンフー』の主演には最初李小龍が内定していたが、プライム・タイムのドラマの主演が中国人ってどうよというレイシズム的な横槍が入って、急遽デヴィッド・キャラダインが主演することになった。失意の李小龍は香港に帰った。皮肉にもデヴィッド・キャラダインが香港カンフー映画を作ったといえるかも知れない。また、タランティーノの『ビルを殺れ』でユマ・サーマンがデヴィッド・キャラダインを付け狙うのだが、この映画でサーマンが黄色のジャンプ・スーツを着込み、李小龍の化身として振る舞っていることは偶然ではない。因みに、デヴィッド・キャラダインは後に李小龍の息子、Brandon Leeと共演している。

キル・ビル Vol.1 [DVD]

キル・ビル Vol.2 [DVD]

デヴィッド・キャラダインのフィルモグラフィはhttp://www.fandango.com/davidcarradine/filmography/p84255　
ところで、彼の主演作はやっぱりChoose Meだよねと一瞬思ったのだが、これはデヴィッドではなく、弟のキース・キャラダイン。ただ、混同していたのは私だけではないらしい。

Choose Me [DVD]

*1:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090306/1236309160 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090308/1236521261