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The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions Volume 15

The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions Volume 15

Barshay, Andrew E.

Paperback

Series: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power, Book 15

General SociologyJapanese History

ISBN10: 0520253817
ISBN13: 9780520253810
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Nov 19 2007
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.40 Depth: 8.62
Language: English
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.

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