Culture and Identity : : Japanese Intellectuals during the Interwar Years / / ed. by J. Thomas Rimer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Burkman, Thomas W.,; Harootunian, H. D.,; Hoston, Germaine A.,; Kawamura, Nozomu,; Kohl, Stephen W.,; LaFleur, William R.,; Nakano, Hajimu,; Rimer, J. Thomas,; Roden, Donald,; Silverberg, Miriam,; Soviak, Eugene,; Stone, Jackie,; Takashina, Shuji,; Veda, Makoto,; de Bary, Brett,
• HerausgeberIn: Rimer, J. Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1106
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)

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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: THE MOVE INWARD -- Introduction -- 1. Abe Jirō and The Diary of Santarō -- 2. Kurata Hyakuzō and The Origins of Love and Understanding -- 3. Taishō Culture and the Problem of Gender Ambivalence -- PART II: CULTURE AND SOCIETY -- Introduction -- 4. Sociology and Socialism in the Interwar Period -- 5. Tsuchida Kyōson and the Sociology of the Masses -- 6. Disciplinizing Native Knowledge and Producing Place: Yanagita Kunio, Origuchi Shinobu, Takata Yasuma -- PART III: MARXISM AND CULTURAL CRITICISM -- Introduction -- 7. Marxism Addresses the Modern: Nakano Shigeharu's Reproduction of Taishō Culture -- 8. "Credo Quia Absurdum": Tenkō and the Prisonhouse of Language -- 9. Ikkoku Shakai-shugi: Sano Manabu and the Limits of Marxism as Cultural Criticism -- PART IV: JAPAN IN ASIA -- Introduction -- 10. Nitobe Inazō: 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 Taishō: Asia and Europe in the Early Writings of Watsuji Tetsurō -- PART V: ART AND THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE -- Introduction -- 13. Kuki Shuzō and The Structure of lki -- 14. Natsume Sōseki and the Development of Modern Japanese Art -- 15. Yūgen and Erhabene: Ōnishi Yoshinori's Attempt to Synthesize Japanese and Western Aesthetics -- Contributors -- Index