Description
Here, in a well-polished and interpreted translation, is the defining cultural text of wartime Japan. This collective inquiry into the possibility of attaining a modernity beyond that proffered by the West, so important in Japan's past, also resonates with the world's present, which has yet to solve--or overcome--the challenge of the modern. -- Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University
About the Author
Richard F. Calichman is an associate professor of Japan Studies and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the City College of New York, CUNY. His previous publications include Contemporary Japanese Thought, What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, and Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West.
Reviews
An important text for anyone interested in the challenges to modernity in historical Japan or in much of the contemporary world... Highly Recommended. CHOICE Calichman's English version of Overcoming Modernity... is without doubt an excellent achievement and will be indispensable reading for any serious student of modern Japan. -- Yasunari Takada Journal of Japanese Studies Calichman has formulated a powerful and radical philosophical critique. -- Christian Uhl Monumenta Nippocica The book is not only essential reading for scholars of Japanese intellectual and political history, but also of interest to anyone concerned with the crisis of modernity and various reactions to it. -- Viren Murthy Social History ...the collection, finely translated by Calichman, will be indispensable for the study of Japan's modern intellectual history and as such is to be highly recommended. -- Christopher W. A. Szpilman Pacific Affairs
Book Information
ISBN 9780231143967
Author Richard Calichman
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press