One Hundred Million Philosophers : : Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan / / Adam Bronson.
After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of the Institute for the Science of Thought, one of the most influential associations to emerge in the ea...
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Bronson, Adam, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut One Hundred Million Philosophers : Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan / Adam Bronson. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (272 p.) : 1 b&w illustration text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Science of Thought and Democracy -- Chapter One. The Negative Origins of Postwar Thought -- Chapter Two. Communicating Democracy: American Social Science and the Enlightenment of the Intellectual -- Chapter Three. The Philosophy of Ordinary People -- Chapter Four. Writing a Revolution: Life-Writing, the Circle Movement, and the People's Republic of China -- Chapter Five. The Age of Conversion -- Conclusion. The 1960 U.S.-Japan Security Treaty Protests and Their Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of the Institute for the Science of Thought, one of the most influential associations to emerge in the early postwar years. The institute's founders believed that the estrangement of intellectuals from the general public had contributed to the rise of fascism. To address this, they sought to develop a "science of thought" that would reconnect the world of ideas with everyday experience and thus reimagine Japan as a democratic nation, home to one hundred million philosophers.To tell the story of Science of Thought and postwar democracy, Bronson weaves together several strands of Japan's modern history that are often treated separately: the revival of interest in the social sciences and Marxism after the war, the appearance of new social movements that challenged traditional class and gender hierarchies, and the ascendance of a mass middle-class culture. This story is transnational in both connective and comparative senses. Most of the Science of Thought founders were educated in America, and they drew upon a network of American thinkers and institutions for support. They also derived inspiration from other efforts to promote a culture of democracy, ranging from thought reform campaigns in the People's Republic of China to the Mass Observation study of the British working classes. By tracing these sources of inspiration around the world, Bronson reveals the contours of a transnational intellectual milieu.Science of Thought embodied a vision of democratic experimentation that had to be re-articulated repeatedly in response to challenges that arose in connection with geopolitical events and social change, prompting the group's evolution from a small research circle in the 1940s into the standard-bearer for citizen activism in the 1960s. Through this history, Bronson argues that the significance of Science of Thought lay in the way it exemplified democracy in practice. The practical experience of the intellectuals and citizens associated with the group remains relevant to those who continue to grapple with the dilemmas of democracy today. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Shisao no Kagaku Kenkyaukai. HISTORY / Asia / Japan. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package 9783110649826 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016 9783110701005 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2014-2016 9783110564136 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110663235 print 9780824855338 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824855369 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824855369 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780824855369.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Science of Thought and Democracy -- Chapter One. The Negative Origins of Postwar Thought -- Chapter Two. Communicating Democracy: American Social Science and the Enlightenment of the Intellectual -- Chapter Three. The Philosophy of Ordinary People -- Chapter Four. Writing a Revolution: Life-Writing, the Circle Movement, and the People's Republic of China -- Chapter Five. The Age of Conversion -- Conclusion. The 1960 U.S.-Japan Security Treaty Protests and Their Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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