Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought / / Thomas R.H. Havens.
A nineteenth-century aristocrat, Nishi Amane (1829-1897) was one of the first Japanese to assert the supremacy of Western culture. He was sent by his government to Leiden to study the European social sciences; on his return to Japan shortly before the climactic Meiji Restoration of 1868 he introduce...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1970 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Note
- I. The Intellectual in Japan's Transition from Feudalism to Modernism
- II. The Early Development of Nishi's Thought
- III. Study Abroad and Service at Home
- IV. A Leader in Enlightening Japan
- V. Attack on Neo-Confucianism
- VI. Ethics for the New Society
- VII. Nishi on Politics and Current Events
- VIII. Civil and Military Society
- IX. Nishi and Modern Japan
- Biographical Notes
- List of Works Cited
- Index