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Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals during the Interwar Years
J. Thomas Rimer (Ed.)
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Description for Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals during the Interwar Years
Paperback. Editor(s): Rimer, J. Thomas. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 542.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691607115
SKU
V9780691607115
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Reviews for Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals during the Interwar Years
"The aptly titled Culture and Identity is a fascinating and important volume covering a period in Japanese history that has only recently begun to receive in English the scholarly treatment it so thoroughly deserves."
Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies
Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies