Format:
1 Online-Ressource (199 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780231505123
Series Statement:
The wellek library lectures series
Content:
America's preeminent intellectual historian of modern Japan inaugurates a challenging debate on the arbitrary cultural divisions of our world, and in the process sheds light on the troubling academic enterprise called "area studies." This is one of the first works to explore on equal footing the European and Japanese conceptions of modernity -- as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun
Note:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Tracking the Dinosaur; 2. The "Mystery of the Everyday"; 3. "Dialectical Optics"; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231117951
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231117944
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Harootunian, Harry D., 1929 - History's disquiet New York [u.a.] : Columbia University Press, 2000 ISBN 0231117949
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231117957
Language:
English
Keywords:
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