Social Sciences in Modern Japan - The Marxian and Modernist Traditions

Informationen zum Autor Andrew E. Barshay is Professor of History at the University of California! Berkeley. He is the author of State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis (California! 1988). Klappentext "A stunning achievement as the first full account of social science in a non-Western society. Barshay tells an epic story of how a handful of Japanese intellectuals used social science to make sense of the new society into which they were moving. What they did helps us understand not only Japan! but the whole modern world."-Robert Bellah! Professor of Sociology! Emeritus! University of California! Berkeley! and author of Tokugawa Religion and Imagining Japan Zusammenfassung An intellectual history of Japanese social science, since the 1890s, this work considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of "development" or "rationalization" have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments 1. Social Science as History 2. The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: An Overview 3. Doubly Cruel: Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism 4. Thinking through Capital: Uno Kozo and Marxian Political Economy 5. School's Out? The Uno School Meets Japanese Capitalism 6. Social Science and Ethics: Civil Society Marxism 7. Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan: Maruyama Masao as a Political Thinker Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Andrew E Barshay, Andrew E. Barshay, Barshay Andrew E.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2007
• EAN: 9780520253810
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25381-0
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power S.; Twentieth-Century Japan: The E; Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, HISTORY / General