02845nam 2200709 450 991077982760332120230405212417.01-282-87190-097866128719009780231505123(electronic book)0-231-50512-4(electronic book)(CKB)111056485388084(EBL)908250(OCoLC)729029552(SSID)ssj0000172392(PQKBManifestationID)12038563(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172392(PQKBWorkID)10151074(PQKB)11538762(SSID)ssj0000437745(PQKBManifestationID)12170953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000437745(PQKBWorkID)10448391(PQKB)11791254(MiAaPQ)EBC908250(Au-PeEL)EBL908250(CaONFJC)MIL287190(EXLCZ)9911105648538808420190118d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHistory's disquiet modernity, cultural practice, and the question of everyday life /Harry HarootunianNew York :Columbia University Press,[2000]1 online resource (199 pages)Wellek Library lecture seriesIncludes index.0-231-11795-7 0-231-11794-9 Introduction -- 1. Tracking the Dinosaur -- 2. The Mystery of the Everyday -- 3. Dialectical Optics.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.Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.Civilization, Modern20th centuryPostmodernismSocial aspectsEuropeCivilization20th centuryJapanCivilization20th centuryEuropeIntellectual life20th centuryJapanIntellectual life20th centuryAsiaStudy and teachingCivilization, ModernPostmodernismSocial aspects.909.82Harootunian Harry D.1929-636820MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779827603321History's disquiet3813646UNINA