Harry Harootunian

Archaism and Actuality

Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary

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Produktbeschreibung

In Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism. He applies his theorization of subsumption to examine how capitalism integrates and redirects preexisting social, cultural, and economic practices to guide the present. This subsumption leads to a global condition in which states and societies all exist within different stages and manifestations of capitalism. Drawing on Japanese philosophers Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun, Marxist theory, and Gramsci's notion of passive revolution, Harootunian shows how the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and its program dedicated to transforming the country into a modern society exemplified a unique path to capitalism. Japan's capitalist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rise as an imperial power, and subsequent transition to fascism signal a wholly distinct trajectory into modernity that forecloses any notion of a pure or universal development of capitalism. With Archaism and Actuality, Harootunian offers both a retheorization of capitalist development and a reinterpretation of epochal moments in modern Japanese history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020363
• ISBN-10: 1478020369
• Artikelnr.: 67411125

Autorenporträt

Harry Harootunian

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xix
1. In the Zone of Occult Instability  1
2. Restoration  36
3. Capitalism and Fascism  99
4. Actuality and the Archaic Mode of Cognition 145
5. Epilogue: Déjà Vu  223
Notes  245
Bibliography  261
Index  269