TY - BOOK AU - Rimer,J.Thomas TI - Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals during the Interwar Years T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9781400861255 AV - DS822 .C858 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Cover; Contents; Preface ; Part I: The Move Inward; 1. Abe Jirō and the Diary of Santarō; 2. Kurata Hyakuzō and the Origins of Love and Understanding; 3. Taishō Culture and the Problem of Gender Ambivalence; Part II: Culture and Society; 4. Sociology and Socialism in the Interwar Period; 5. Tsuchida Kyōson and the Sociology of the Masses; 6. Disciplinizing Native Knowledge and Producing Place: Yanagita Kunio, Origuchi Shinobu, Takata Yasuma; Part III: Marxism and Cultural Criticism; 7. Marxism Addresses the Modern: Nakano Shigeharu's Reproduction of Taishō Culture; 8. ""Credo Quia Absurdum"": Tenko and the Prisonhouse of Language9. Ikkoku Shakai-Shugi: Sano Manabu and the Limits of Marxism as Cultural Criticism; Part IV: Japan in Asia; 10. Nitobe Inazō: From World Order to Regional Order; 11. A Vast and Grave Task: Interwar Buddhist Studies as an Expression of Japan's Envisioned Global Role; 12. A Turning in Taishō: Asia and Europe in the Early Writings of Watsuji Tetsurō; Part V: Art and the Concept of Culture; 13. Kuki Shūzō and the Structure of Iki; 14. Natsume Sōseki and the Development of Modern Japanese Art; 15. Yūgen and Erhabene: Ōnishi Yoshinori's Attempt to Synthesize Japanese and Western AestheticsContributors; Index; 2; b N2 - This collection of essays represents the first attempt in this country to examine systematically the nature and development of modern Japanese self-consciousness as expressed through culture. The essays reveal eloquently the extent to which important aspects of Japanese intellectual life in the early twentieth century were inspired by European models of cultural criticism, ranging from Kant and Hegel to Nietzsche, Marx, Durkheim, and Bergson. Implicitly comparative, this collection raises the question whether ""late"" industrialization and related processes call forth cultural convergence) UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=791139&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -