Culture and Identity : : Japanese Intellectuals during the Interwar Years /

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

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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.)
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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

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