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Informationen zum Autor John Clammer Klappentext Japanese culture has long since assimilated and refined the issues that now exercise western social theorists - the place of emotion in culture, the unity of mind and body, the centrality of the body, and the position of the self not as autonomous actor but as nodal point in a social and ecological web of relationships. This book begins to address these issues by questioning how special Japanese society really is, the limitations of western social theory in grasping the fullness of this dynamic and complex Asian society, and by inquiring as to how Japan in turn may speak to social theory and deepen and broaden the principles on which social theory attempts to explore and categorize the social and cultural worlds. Zusammenfassung Examines the relevance of some major aspects and assumptions of contemporary social and cultural theory to Japanese society - which has a very different history and conception of its self-identity from the Western ones in which the modern social sciences have almost exclusively arisen. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 From Modernity to Postmodernity?; Chapter 3 High Culture/Mass Culture and the Experience of Late Modernity; Chapter 4 Modernity and Lifestyle in the Japanese City; Chapter 5 Natural Being/Social Being; Chapter 6 Modernity and the Self; Chapter 7 Hierarchy, ‘Group’ and Individual; Chapter 8 Social Theory and the Part icularities of Asian Modernity;
