EXCERPT What, then, is the new identity to which the tourist must anchor themselves? One candidate I would like to consider is the family. I wonder whether it might be possible to reconstruct or deconstruct the concept of the family and forge it into a concept that expresses the new solidarity of the tourist. In so doing, we would finally be able to obtain the fourth ideal that can serve as the starting point for critiquing both the principle of order that commences with the individual (globalism) and the principle of order that commences with the state (nationalism). Postal solidarity is familial solidarity; the philosophy of the family is what comes after the philosophy of the tourist. What? The family? Many readers may be disheartened by this suggestion. In fact, this word is rather unpopular, in particular among Japanese intellectuals. There are several reasons for this.…