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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 1 b&w illustration |
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Table of Contents:
- 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