A01=Andrew E. Barshay
atlantic rim
Author_Andrew E. Barshay
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civil society
cultural self image
development
developmental alienation
empires
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ethics
germany
japan
japanese capitalism
japanese culture
japanese empire
japanese social sciences
japanese society
kindaishugi
maruyama masao
marxism
modernism
modernity
national society
political economy
political thinker
politics
postwar japan
pre revolutionary russia
rationalization
self understanding
sense of difference
uno kozo
Product details
- ISBN 9780520253810
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day 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. Andrew E. Barshay argues that Japan, together with Germany and pre-revolutionary Russia, represented forms of developmental alienation from the Atlantic Rim symptomatic of late-emerging empires. Neither members nor colonies of the Atlantic Rim, these were independent national societies whose cultural self-image was nevertheless marked by a sense of difference. Barshay presents a historical overview of major Japanese trends and treats two of the most powerful streams of Japanese social science, one associated with Marxism, the other with Modernism (kindaishugi), whose most representative figure is the late Maruyama Masao. Demonstrating that a sense of developmental alienation shaped the thinking of social scientists in both streams, the author argues that they provided Japanese social science with moments of shared self-understanding.
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).
