Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought
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Aizawa Seishisai
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Bakumatsu
Buddhism
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Chuo University
Confucianism
Confucius
Daimyo
Edo period
Empire of Japan
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Fukuzawa Yukichi
Han school
Hirata Atsutane
Ii Naosuke
Ishida Baigan
Itagaki Taisuke
Iwakura Mission
Iwakura Tomomi
Japanese name
Japanese philosophy
Japanese studies
John Stuart Mill
Kokugaku
Kokushi (official)
Kokutai
Kumazawa Banzan
Lecture
Matthew C. Perry
Meiji Constitution
Meiji oligarchy
Meiji period
Meiji Restoration
Meirokusha
Modern Studies
Modernity
Morality
Mori Arinori
Nakamura Masanao
Neo-Confucianism
New Society
Nichiren
Nishi Amane
Nishi Honganji
Nominalism
Nomura
Oda Nobunaga
Of Education
Philosophy
Politics
Positivism
Postwar Japan
Pragmatism
Rangaku
Religion
Sakamoto Ryoma
Shishi (organization)
Shogun
State Shinto
Superiority (short story)
Taikun
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Tokugawa Nariaki
Tokugawa shogunate
Tsuda Mamichi
Utilitarianism
Western culture
Western philosophy
Western thought
Yamagata Aritomo
Yamauchi
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- ISBN 9780691621357
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A nineteenth-century aristocrat, Nishi Amane (1829-1897) was one of the first Japanese to assert the supremacy of Western culture. He was sent by his government to Leiden to study the European social sciences; on his return to Japan shortly before the climactic Meiji Restoration of 1868 he introduced and adapted European utilitarianism and positivism to his country's intellectual world. To modernize, Nishi held, Japan must cast off the bonds of the Confucian world-view in order to adopt new principles of empirical scholarly investigation and new standards of self-improvement. Though a Confucian by upbringing, Nishi became thoroughly committed to Western intellectual values in his programs for the new Japanese society. In his roles of teacher, writer, and government administrator, he was influential at one of the most critical times in Japan's history. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
