Culture and Identity

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.

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Autorentext

Edited by J. Thomas Rimer

Inhalt

• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• Preface,
• Introduction,
• 1. Abe Jiro and The Diary of Santaro,
• 2. Kurata Hyakuzo and The Origins of Love and Understanding,
• 3. Taisho Culture and the Problem of Gender Ambivalence,
• Introduction,
• 4. Sociology and Socialism in the Interwar Period,
• 5. Tsuchida Kyoson and the Sociology of the Masses,
• 6. Disciplinizing Native Knowledge and Producing Place: Yanagita Kunio, Origuchi Shinobu, Takata Yasuma,
• Introduction,
• 7. Marxism Addresses the Modern: Nakano Shigeharu's Reproduction of Taisho Culture,
• 8. "Credo Quia Absurdum": Tenko and the Prisonhouse of Language,
• 9. Ikkoku Shakai-shugi: Sano Manabu and the Limits of Marxism as Cultural Criticism,
• Introduction,
• 10. Nitobe Inazo: 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 Taisho: Asia and Europe in the Early Writings of Watsuji Tetsuro,
• Introduction,
• 13. Kuki Shuzo and The Structure of lki,
• 14. Natsume Soseki and the Development of Modern Japanese Art,
• 15. Yugen and Erhabene: Onishi Yoshinori's Attempt to Synthesize Japanese and Western Aesthetics,
• Contributors,
• Index,