History's Disquiet Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life |
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| Author:
| Harootunian, Harry |
| Series title: | Wellek Library Lectures |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-11794-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2000 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $173.95 |
Book Description:
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America's preeminent intellectual historian of modern Japan inaugurates a challenging debate on the arbitrary cultural divisions of our world, and in the process sheds light on the troubling academic enterprise called "area studies." This is one of the first works to explore on equal footing the European and Japanese conceptions of modernity—as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun.
America's preeminent intellectual historian of modern Japan inaugurates a challenging debate on the arbitrary cultural divisions of our world, and in the process sheds light on the troubling academic enterprise called "area studies." This is one of the first works to explore on equal footing the European and Japanese conceptions of modernity—as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun.