Masakazu Nakai (English name)

Japanese: 中井正一 - なかいまさかず（英語表記）Nakai Masakazu

1900 (Meiji 33)-1952 (Showa 27). Born in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture. Aesthetician, Deputy Director of the National Diet Library. After graduating from the Department of Philosophy at Kyoto University, he founded the magazines Sekai Bunka (1935-1937) and Doyobi (Saturday) (1936-1937) with Kuno Osamu and others in opposition to the prewar fascist trend, but was arrested in 1937 (Showa 12) for violating the Peace Preservation Law. After World War II, he became director of Onomichi City Library in 1945 (Showa 20), and after many twists and turns, he became deputy director of the National Diet Library, which was established in 1948 (Showa 23). From June 1949 (Showa 24) to May 1952 (Showa 27), he served as chairman of the Japan Library Association, rallying together the library world in the midst of the postwar chaos, and worked hard to enact the Library Law. He wrote the essay "The Logic of the Committee" (1936) and the book "The Logic of Beauty and the Group" (1962), among others, and also developed a functionalist theory on libraries. [Reference] Library Law (Japan)

Source: Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 4th Edition Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 5th Edition About Information

Japanese:

1900（明治33）-1952（昭和27）．広島県竹原市出身．美学者，国立国会図書館副館長．京都大学哲学科卒業後，戦前のファシズム的風潮に対抗して，久野収らとともに雑誌『世界文化』（1935-1937）と『土曜日』（1936-1937）を創刊するが，1937（昭和12）年，「治安維持法」違反で検挙．第二次大戦後，1945（昭和20）年に尾道市立図書館長，紆余曲折の末1948（昭和23）年に設置された国立国会図書館副館長に就任した．1949（昭和24）年6月から1952（昭和27）年5月，日本図書館協会理事長として，戦後混乱期の中にあった図書館界を結集，「図書館法」制定に尽力する．論文「委員会の論理」（1936），著書『美と集団の論理』（1962）などを執筆，また，機能主義的図書館論を展開した．[参照項目] 図書館法（日本）

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