The Social Sciences in Modern Japan : The Marxian and Modernist Traditions / Andrew E. Barshay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barshay, Andrew E., Author.

Series:

Twentieth-century Japan ; 15.

Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Japan--History.

Political culture.

Democracy--Japan--History.

Democracy.

Socialism--Japan--History.

Socialism.

Intellectuals--Japan--History.

Intellectuals.

Social sciences--Japan--History.

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of "development" or "rationalization" have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Andrew E. Barshay argues that Japan, together with Germany and pre-revolutionary Russia, represented forms of developmental alienation from the Atlantic Rim symptomatic of late-emerging empires. Neither members nor colonies of the Atlantic Rim, these were independent national societies whose cultural self-image was nevertheless marked by a sense of difference. Barshay presents a historical overview of major Japanese trends and treats two of the most powerful streams of Japanese social science, one associated with Marxism, the other with Modernism (kindaishugi), whose most representative figure is the late Maruyama Masao. Demonstrating that a sense of developmental alienation shaped the thinking of social scientists in both streams, the author argues that they provided Japanese social science with moments of shared self-understanding.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Social Science as History

2. The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: An Overview

3. Doubly Cruel: Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism

4. Thinking through Capital: Uno Kozo and Marxian Political Economy

5. School's Out? The Uno School Meets Japanese Capitalism

6. Social Science and Ethics: Civil Society Marxism

7. Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan: Maruyama Masao as a Political Thinker

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612360138

9781282360136

1282360132

9780520941335

0520941330

9781435611498

1435611497

OCLC:

476111496