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Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
Harry D. Harootunian
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Description for Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
Paperback. Examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture based on fantasy and desire. Num Pages: 480 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 688.
In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass culture is the focus of Harry Harootunian's fascinating inquiry into the problems of modernity. Here he examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture ... Read more
In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass culture is the focus of Harry Harootunian's fascinating inquiry into the problems of modernity. Here he examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691095486
SKU
V9780691095486
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About Harry D. Harootunian
Harry Harootunian is Chair of the East Asian Studies Department and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of many books, including History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Questions of Everyday Life, and with B. Silberman, Japan in Crisis (Princeton).
Reviews for Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
"Harootunian is one of the leading intellectual historians of Japan... This is clearly an extremely erudite work ... by an author deeply familiar with his topic."
David G. Egler, History "A truly significant book, perhaps even more important than Harootunian's earlier publications... Overcome by Modernity is without a doubt a significant and courageous book."
Sepp Linhart, Monumenta Nipponica "[A] powerful study... Harootunian ... Read more
David G. Egler, History "A truly significant book, perhaps even more important than Harootunian's earlier publications... Overcome by Modernity is without a doubt a significant and courageous book."
Sepp Linhart, Monumenta Nipponica "[A] powerful study... Harootunian ... Read more