LEADER 03543nam 2200649 450 001 9910789073603321 005 20230213215814.0 010 $a0-674-28011-3 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674280113 035 $a(CKB)3390000000059574 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001122038 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11732168 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001122038 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11057259 035 $a(PQKB)11774397 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3046383 035 $a(DE-B1597)247854 035 $a(OCoLC)1013940013 035 $a(OCoLC)900844512 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674280113 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3046383 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10970823 035 $a(OCoLC)935279391 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000059574 100 $a20150216h19691969 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe failure of freedom $ea portrait of modern Japanese intellectuals /$fTatsuo Arima 205 $aReprint 2013 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cHarvard University Press,$d1969. 210 2$aLondon, [England] :$cOxford University Press,$d[date of distribution not identified] 210 4$dİ1969 215 $a1 online resource (315 pages) 225 1 $aHarvard East Asian Series ;$v39 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-28010-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tPreface --$tContents --$tI. THE REVOLUTIONARY RESTORATION --$tII. UCHIMURA KANZ?: THE POLITICS OF SPIRITUAL DESPAIR --$tIII. THE ANARCHISTS: THE NEGATION OF POLITICS --$tIV. JAPANESE NATURALISM: THE LIMITATIONS OF EXPERIENCE --$tV. THE SHIRAKABA-HA: THE TYRANNY OF ART --$tVI. ARISHIMA TAKEO: BOURGEOIS CRITICISM --$tVII. AKUTAGAWA RY?NOSUKE: THE LITERATURE OF DEFEATISM --$tVIII. PROLETARIAN LITERATURE: THE TYRANNY OF POLITICS --$tCONCLUSION --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tGLOSSARY --$tINDEX 330 $aAn excellent introduction to Japanese intellectual history in the first third of the twentieth century, this is a study of the intellectual atmosphere that made the development of a constitutional form of government difficult. As heirs to the Meiji Restoration, modern Japanese intellectuals were trapped by the historical paradox that modern Japan was born not so much of the victory of the new forces over the old, as of the skillful self-transformation of the old forces themselves. To reject parts of new Japanese society often meant to reject the whole of it.Tatsuo Arima examines the period's philosophical and religious writings and the main literary figures and groups and their works and theories about literature. He finds a widespread anticonstitutional mentality and relates it to the intellectuals' political behavior. In particular, he analyzes the reasons why prewar Japanese intellectuals, who seemed to be so opposed to the rise of nationalism, took no socially effective action to prevent its emergence and subsequently became its victims. 410 0$aHarvard East Asian series ;$v39. 606 $aIntellectuals$zJapan 606 $aLiberalism$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xIntellectual life 615 0$aIntellectuals 615 0$aLiberalism 676 $a915.2/03/320922 700 $aArima$b Tatsuo$01558568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789073603321 996 $aThe failure of freedom$93823086 997 $aUNINA