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Tosaka Jun-a major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan-offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary ideology that exposes liberalism's deep complicity with fascism.
List of contents
Introduction, by Richard Stolz
Acknowledgments
Preface (1935)
Preface to the Revised Edition (1936)
Supplemental Preface to the Revised Edition (1937)
Part I: Foundation for a Critique of Japanism1. Problems in Contemporary Japanese Thought: Japanism, Liberalism, Materialism
2. Foundation for a Critique of Japanism: A Critique of Philological Philosophy
3. An Analysis of "Common Sense": Toward a Resolution of Two Contradictions in Social Common Sense
4. On Enlightenment: The Meaning and Necessity of Enlightenment Today
5. A Scientific Critique of Culture: An Outline for a Critique of National Purification
6. Japanist Ideology: Japanese Spiritualism, Japanese Agrarian Fundamentalism, Japanese Pan-Asianism
7. Japanese Ethics and Anthropology: An Analysis of the Social Meaning of Watsuji Tetsur¿'s Ethics
8. An Analysis of the Restorationist Phenomenon: On the Famialism Analogy
9. The Essence of Cultural Control: An Analysis of Various Aspects of Cultural Control in Contemporary Japan
10. The Fate of Japanism: From Fascism to the Ideology of the Imperial Way
Part II: Foundation for a Critique of Liberalism11. Modern Idealism in Disguise: Foundation for a Critique of "Hermeneutic Philosophy"
12. "The Logic of Nothingness," Is It a Logic?: On Nishida's Philosophical Method
13. The Sorcery of "Totality": Takahashi Satomi's Philosophical Method
14. Literature and Philosophy in an Age of Reaction: On the Delusions of "Literaturism"
15. The Essence of "Literary Liberalism": The Progressive and Reactionary Nature of "Liberals"
16. The Consciousness and Class Theory of the Intelligentsia: Against the So-Called "Class Theory of Intelligence"
17. Doubts on the Theory of the Intelligentsia: Is the Current Problematization of the Intelligentsia Mistaken?
18. The Theory of the Intelligentsia and the Theory of Technology: A Reexamination of the Theory of Technology
19. Liberal Philosophy and Materialism: Against Two Types of Liberal Philosophy
20. Contemporary Japanese Thought: The Superiority of Materialism for the Question of Thought
Part III: The Masses and Socialism in an "Age of Reaction"21. The Current Meaning of "Progressive" and "Reactionary"
22. A Reconsideration of the Masses
23. Liberalism, Fascism, Socialism
Afterword: A
Japanese Ideology for Our Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Tosaka Jun. Translated by Robert Stolz.
Summary
Tosaka Jun—a major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan—offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary ideology that exposes liberalism’s deep complicity with fascism.
