Uneven Moments : : Reflections on Japan's Modern History / / Harry Harootunian.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Harootunian, Harry,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Uneven Moments from Japan's Modern History
• PART I. IMMINENT CRITICISM AND ACADEMIC DISCOURSE: AREA STUDIES
• 1. Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of "Globalism"
• 2. "Memories of Underdevelopment" After Area Studies
• PART II. CULTURAL FORM AND POLITICAL WITHDRAWAL: TOKUGAWA JAPAN
• 3. Cultural Politics in Tokugawa Japan
• 4. Late Tokugawa Culture and Thought
• PART III. PATHWAYS TO MODERNITY'S PRESENT AND THE ENDURING EVERYDAY
• 5. Shadowing History: National Narratives and the Persistence of the Everyday
• 6. Overcome by Modernity: Fantasizing Everyday Life and the Discourse on the Social in Interwar Japan
• 7. Time, Everydayness, and the Specter of Fascism: Tosaka Jun and Philosophy's New Vocation
• 8. Allegorizing History: Marxism, Hani Gorō, and the Demands of the Present
• 9. Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History
• 10. Reflections from Fukushima: History, Memory, and the Crisis of Contemporaneity
• PART IV. IDEOLOGICAL FORMATION: COLLUDING WITH THE PAST
• 11. Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies
• 12. The Presence of Archaism/The Persistence of Fascism
• Previously Published Materials
• Index