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Overcome by modernity, history, culture, and community in interwar Japan, Harry Harootunian

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-431) and index

index present

non fiction

Overcome by modernity

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Harry Harootunian

"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 based on fantasy and desire. Harootunian not only explains why the Japanese valued philosophical understandings of these events, often over sociological or empirical explanations, but also locates Japan's experience of modernity within a larger global process marked by both modernism and fascism." -- publisher's description

history, culture, and community in interwar Japan

History, culture, and community in interwar Japan