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Tosaka Jun : A Critical Reader / edited by Ken C. Kawashima, Fabian Schafer, and Robert Stolz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cornell East Asia series ; 168.
- Cornell East Asia series ; 168
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tosaka, Jun, 1900-1945.
- Tosaka, Jun.
- Philosophy, Japanese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University, [2013]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781942242680
- OCLC:
- 1371294485
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