LEADER 04569nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910780065203321 005 20210827024509.0 010 $a9786613339720 010 $a1-283-33972-2 010 $a1-4008-2386-2 010 $a1-4008-1432-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823864 035 $a(CKB)111056486499210 035 $a(EBL)804868 035 $a(OCoLC)785829266 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000647076 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11383133 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647076 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10593412 035 $a(PQKB)10005824 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36192 035 $a(DE-B1597)447252 035 $a(OCoLC)979725160 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823864 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL804868 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514798 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL333972 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC804868 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486499210 100 $a20000201d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOvercome by modernity$b[electronic resource] $ehistory, culture, and community in interwar Japan /$fHarry Harootunian 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (475 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-09548-5 311 0 $a0-691-00650-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter 1. The Fantasy of Modern Life --$tChapter 2. Overcoming Modernity --$tChapter 3. Perceiving the Present --$tChapter 4. The Persistence of Cultural Memory --$tChapter 5. The Communal Body --$tChapter 6. History's Actuality --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass culture is the focus of Harry Harootunian's fascinating inquiry into the problems of modernity. Here he examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture based on fantasy and desire. Harootunian not only explains why the Japanese valued philosophical understandings of these events, often over sociological or empirical explanations, but also locates Japan's experience of modernity within a larger global process marked by both modernism and fascism. What caught the attention of Japanese thinkers was how the production of desire actually threatened historical culture. These intellectuals sought to "overcome" the materialism and consumerism associated with the West, particularly the United States. They proposed versions of a modernity rooted in cultural authenticity and aimed at infusing meaning into everyday life, whether through art, memory, or community. Harootunian traces these ideas in the works of Yanagita Kunio, Tosaka Jun, Gonda Yasunosuke, and Kon Wajiro, among others, and relates their arguments to those of such European writers as George Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille. Harootunian shows that Japanese and European intellectuals shared many of the same concerns, and also stresses that neither Japan's involvement with fascism nor its late entry into the capitalist, industrial scene should cause historians to view its experience of modernity as an oddity. The author argues that strains of fascism ran throughout most every country in Europe and in many ways resulted from modernizing trends in general. This book, written by a leading scholar of modern Japan, amounts to a major reinterpretation of the nature of Japan's modernity. 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y20th century 607 $aJapan$xCivilization$y1912-1926 607 $aJapan$xCivilization$y1926-1945 607 $aJapan$xCivilization$xWestern influences 607 $aJapan$xRelations 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 676 $a952.03/3 700 $aHarootunian$b Harry D.$f1929-$0636820 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780065203321 996 $aOvercome by modernity$93826601 997 $aUNINA