Description: What Is Modernity? : Writings Of Takeuchi Yoshimi, Paperback by Calichman, Richard F. (EDT); Takeuchi, Yoshimi, ISBN 0231133278, ISBN-13 9780231133272, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subjects relationship to the world. His works were also central in drawing Japanese attention to the problems inherent in western colonialism and to the cultural importance of Asia, especially China. Takeuchis writings synthesized philosophy, literature, and history, focusing not simply on Japan and the West but rather on the triangular relationship between Japan, the West, and China. This book, which represents the first appearance of Takeuchis essays in English translation, explores Japanese modernity, literature, and nationalism as well as Chinese intellectual history.
Takeuchis research demonstrates how Asians attempted to make sense of European modernity without sacrificing their own cultural histories. An authentic method of modernity for Asia, Takeuchi concludes, needs to stress difference and plurality as opposed to the homogenizing force of westernization.
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Book Title: What Is Modernity? : Writings Of Takeuchi Yoshimi
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is Modernity? : Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Asian / General, Asia / Japan, General
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2005
Item Weight: 10.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Yoshimi Takeuchi
Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
