Tosaka Jun : : A Critical Reader / / ed. by Fabian Schafer, Robert Stolz, Ken C. Kawashima.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Ahn, Christopher,; Endo, Katsuhiko,; Harootunian, H. D.,; Hirano, Katsuya,; Kai-Jones, Chris,; Kawashima, Ken C.,; Kimoto, Takeshi,; Person, John,; Schäfer, Fabian,; Stolz, Robert,; Walker, Gavin,
• HerausgeberIn: Kawashima, Ken C.,; Schafer, Fabian,; Stolz, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: “The Darkness of the Lived Moment” --; PART I The Texts --; The Principle of Everydayness and Historical Time --; On Space (Introduction and Conclusion) --; The Academy and Journalism --; Laughter, Comedy, and Humor --; The Fate of Japanism: From Fascism to Emperorism --; Theory of the Intelligentsia and Theory of Technology: Proposing to Reexamine the Theory of Technology --; Liberalist Philosophy and Materialism: Against the Two Types of Liberalist Philosophy --; The Police Function --; Film as a Reproduction of the Present: Custom and the Masses --; Film Art and Film: Toward the Function of Abstraction --; PART II Critical Expansions --; Here, Now: Everyday Space as Cultural Critique --; The Actuality of Journalism and the Possibility of Everyday Critique --; The Dialectic of Laughter and Tosaka’s Critical Theory --; Immaterial Technique and Mass Intelligence: Tosaka Jun on Technology --; Filmic Materiality and Historical Materialism: Tosaka Jun and the Prosthetics of Sensation --; Notes toward a Critical Analysis of Chronic Recession and Ideology: Tosaka Jun on the Police Function --; The Multitude and the Holy Family: Empire, Fascism, and the War Machine --; Notes on the Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781942242680; 9783110606744
• DOI: 10.1515/9781942242680
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Fabian Schafer, Robert Stolz, Ken C. Kawashima.

Tosaka Jun (1900–1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka.