Culture and identity : japanese intellectuals during the interwar years /

This collection of essays represents the first attempt in this country to examine systematically the nature and development of modern Japanese self-consciousness as expressed through culture. The essays reveal eloquently the extent to which important aspects of Japanese intellectual life in the earl...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Rimer, J. Thomas
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: [1990]
©1990
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400861255
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Summary: This collection of essays represents the first attempt in this country to examine systematically the nature and development of modern Japanese self-consciousness as expressed through culture. The essays reveal eloquently the extent to which important aspects of Japanese intellectual life in the early twentieth century were inspired by European models of cultural criticism, ranging from Kant and Hegel to Nietzsche, Marx, Durkheim, and Bergson. Implicitly comparative, this collection raises the question whether "late" industrialization and related processes call forth cultural convergence (as between "East" and "West") or whether a living culture transforms these processes and makes one nation's experience significantly different from that of others.Together with the editor, the contributors include Brett de Bary, Thomas W. Burkman, H. D. Harootunian, Germaine A. Hoston, Nozomu Kawamura, Stephen W. Kohl, William R. LaFleur, Hajimu Nakano, Donald Roden, Miriam Silverberg, Eugene Soviak, Jackie Stone, Shuji Takashina, and Makoto Ueda.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781400861255
Index Number: DS822
CLC: K313.4
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Introduction --
1. Abe Jir and The Diary of Santar /
2. Kurata Hyakuz and The Origins of Love and Understanding /
3. Taish Culture and the Problem of Gender Ambivalence /
4. Sociology and Socialism in the Interwar Period /
5. Tsuchida Ky son and the Sociology of the Masses /
6. Disciplinizing Native Knowledge and Producing Place: Yanagita Kunio, Origuchi Shinobu, Takata Yasuma /
7. Marxism Addresses the Modern: Nakano Shigeharu s Reproduction of Taish Culture /
8. "Credo Quia Absurdum": Tenk and the Prisonhouse of Language /
9. Ikkoku Shakai-shugi: Sano Manabu and the Limits of Marxism as Cultural Criticism /
10. Nitobe Inaz : From World Order to Regional Order /
11. A Vast and Grave Task: Interwar Buddhist Studies as an Expression of Japan's Envisioned Global Role /
12. A Turning in Taish : Asia and Europe in the Early Writings of Watsuji Tetsur /
13. Kuki Shuz and The Structure of lki /
14. Natsume S seki and the Development of Modern Japanese Art /
15. Y gen and Erhabene: nishi Yoshinori s Attempt to Synthesize Japanese and Western Aesthetics /
Contributors --
Index.