Research Catalog

Title

Uneven moments : reflections on Japan's modern history / Harry Harootunian.

Author

Harootunian, Harry D., 1929-

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

viii, 372 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian's essays on Japan's intellectual and cultural history from the late Tokugawa period to the present that span the many phases of his distinguished career and point to new directions for Japanese studies. Uneven Moments begins with reflections on area studies as an academic field and how we go about studying a region. It then moves into discussions of key topics in modern Japanese history. Harootunian considers Japan's fateful encounter with capitalist modernity and the implications of uneven development, examining the combinations of older practices with new demands that characterized the twentieth century. The book examines the making of modern Japan, the transformations of everyday life, and the collision between the production of forms of cultural expression and new political possibilities. Finally, Harootunian analyzes Japanese political identity and its forms of reckoning with the past. Exploring the shifting relationship among culture, the making of meaning, and politics in rich reflections on Marxism and critical theory, Uneven Moments presents Harootunian's intellectual trajectory and in so doing offers a unique assessment of Japanese history"--

Series Statement

Asia perspectives : history, society, and culture

Uniform Title

Asia perspectives.

Alternative Title

Reflections on Japan's modern history

Subjects

• Japan
• Japan > Intellectual life > 1868-
• Intellectual life
• Since 1868
• Civilization
• HISTORY / Asia / General
• Japan > Civilization > 1868-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Tracking the dinosaur: area studies in a time of "globalism" -- Memories of underdevelopment after area studies -- Cultural politics in Tokugawa Japan -- Late Tokugawa culture and thought -- Shadowing history: national narratives and the persistence of the everyday -- Overcome by modernity: fantasizing everyday life and the discourse on the social in interwar Japan -- Time, everydayness, and the specter of fascism: Tosaka Jun and philosophy's new vocation -- Allegorizing history: Hani Goro and the demands of the present -- Philosophy and answerability: the Kyoto School and the epiphanic moment of world history -- Reflections from Fukushima: history, memory, and the crisis of contemporaneity -- Visible discourse/invisible ideologies -- The presence of archaism/the persistence of fascism.

Call Number

JFE 19-6084

ISBN

• 9780231190206
• 0231190204
• 9780231190213
• 0231190212
• 9780231548779 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018025228

OCLC

1035430980

Author

Harootunian, Harry D., 1929- author.

Title

Uneven moments : reflections on Japan's modern history / Harry Harootunian.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Asia perspectives : history, society, and culture

Asia perspectives.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1868

Other Form:

Online version: Harootunian, Harry D., 1929- author. Uneven moments New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] 9780231548779 (DLC) 2018040820

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6084