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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779827603321

Autore

Harootunian Harry D. <1929->

Titolo

History's disquiet : modernity, cultural practice, and the question of everyday life / / Harry Harootunian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2000]

ISBN

1-282-87190-0

9786612871900

9780231505123

0-231-50512-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages)

Collana

Wellek Library lecture series

Disciplina

909.82

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern - 20th century

Postmodernism - Social aspects

Europe Civilization 20th century

Japan Civilization 20th century

Europe Intellectual life 20th century

Japan Intellectual life 20th century

Asia Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Tracking the Dinosaur -- 2. The Mystery of the Everyday -- 3. Dialectical Optics.

Sommario/riassunto

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.