Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan
J. Victor Koschmann(Author)
University of Chicago Press
Will be published approx. on 1. December 1996
Book
Hardback
301 pages
978-0-226-45121-3 (ISBN)
Description
After World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bourgeois democracy and then socialism. But who would be the agents - the active "subjects" - of that revolution in Japan? Intensely debated at the time, this question of active subjectivity influenced popular ideas about nationalism and social change that still affect Japanese political culture today. Here, J. Victor Koschmann analyzes the debate over subjectivity. He traces the arguments of intellectuals from various disciplines and political viewpoints, and asserts that despite their stress on individual autonomy, they all came to define subjectivity in terms of deterministic historical structures, thus ultimately deferring the possibility of radical change in Japan.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-45121-3 (9780226451213)
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Content
Preface Introduction 1: The Politics of Democratic Revolution in Postwar Japan 2: Literature and the Bourgeois Subject 3: Philosophy and the Lacuna in Marxism 4: The Modern Ethos 5: Nationalism Conclusion: The Subject of Modernity Notes Works Cited Index