Overcome by Modernity History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan |
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| Author:
| Harootunian, Harry D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-09548-6 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2002 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $99.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.