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The philosophy of Japanese wartime resistance : a reading, with commentary, of the complete texts of the Kyoto School discussions of "the standpoint of world history and Japan"

Title: The philosophy of Japanese wartime resistance : a reading, with commentary, of the complete texts of the Kyoto School discussions of "the standpoint of world history and Japan" / David Williams.
Author: Williams, David, 1948 July 19-
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Description

liv, 395 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The transcripts of the three Kyoto School roundtable discussions of the theme of 'The standpoint of world history and Japan' may now be judged to form the key source text of responsible Pacific War revisionism. Published in the pages of Chuo Koron, the influential magazine of enlightened elite Japanese opinion during the twelve months after Pearl Harbor, these subversive discussions involved four of the finest minds of the second generation of the Kyoto School of philosophy. Tainted by controversy and shrouded in conspiratorial mystery, these transcripts were never republished in Japan after the war, and they have never been translated into English except in selective and often highly biased form. David Williams has now produced the first objective, balanced and close interpretative reading of these three discussions in their entirety since 1943. This version of the wartime Kyoto School transcripts is neither a translation nor a paraphrase but a fuller rendering in reader-friendly English that is convincingly faithful to the spirit of the original texts. The result is a masterpiece of interpretation and inter-cultural understanding between the Confucian East and the liberal West. Seventy years after Tojo came to power, these documents of the Japanese resistance to his wartime government and policies exercise a unique claim on students of Japanese history and thought today because of their unrivalled revelatory potential within the vast literature on the Pacific War. The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance may therefore stand as the most trenchant analysis of the political, philosophic and legal foundations of the place of the Pacific War in modern Japanese history yet to appear in any language."--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 91

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 91.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

Translated from the Japanese.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction and commentary: the prince of our disorder and the fate of Imperial Japan -- 1. Versailles to Pearl Harbor: Woodrow Wilson and the origin of the ethics of ̀liberal imperialism' -- 2. Ethics as power: the prince of our disorder and the fate of Imperial Japan -- What is the Kyoto School? -- 3. Learning to resist imperialism: the three phases of the classic Kyoto School and the Chuo Koron symposia on ̀the standpoint of world history and Japan' -- 4. Confucianism, realism and liberalism: three approaches to the Chuo Koron symposia -- 5. How East Asians argue: the Confucian form and language of the Chuo Koron symposia -- The Pacific War and the exhaustion of liberal history -- 6. The revisionism of what happens when: Parkes, Ohashi and the exhaustion of liberal history -- 7. Rejecting Tojo's decision for war: the Kyoto School rethinks the state, international law and globalization.
Contents note continued: 8. Are Japan studies moral? Confucian pacifism and Kellogg-Briand liberalism between Voltaire and Walzer -- The Kyoto School and the Post-Meiji Confucian Revolution -- 9. Endless Pearl Harbors? The Kyoto thinker as grand strategist -- 10. Confucian tipping points: how East Asians make up their minds -- 11. Plotting to bring Tojo down: the Post-Meiji Confucian Revolution and the Kyoto School-Imperial Navy conspiracy -- pt. II The Standpoint of World History and Japan or a reading of the complete texts of the three Chuo Koron symposia -- I. Two weeks before Pearl Harbor: the first symposium -- The Standpoint of World History and Japan (26 November 1941) -- II. Three days after the fall of the Dutch East Indies: the second symposium -- The Ethical and Historical Character of the East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere (4 March 1942) -- III. Five months after Midway: the third symposium -- The Philosophy of World-historical Wars (24 November 1942).

Call Number

JFE 16-4728

ISBN

9780415476461
0415476461
9781315852393 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013025037
40023616733

OCLC

858749255

Author

Williams, David, 1948 July 19- author.

Title

The philosophy of Japanese wartime resistance : a reading, with commentary, of the complete texts of the Kyoto School discussions of "the standpoint of world history and Japan" / David Williams.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 91

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 91.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Translated from the Japanese.

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Other Standard Identifier

40023616733

Research Call Number

JFE 16-4728

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