Max Weber in Japan. A Study of His Influence from 1905 to 1995.
(Text in German)
Important parts of Max Weber's works were translated into Japanese before World War II, and today there are more than 2,000 books and articles on Weber in print in Japanese.
The author deals with Weber's reception in Japan from 1905 to the present, and shows that the Japanese response to Weber is part of the history of the social sciences in Japan. He describes how specifically Japanese interpretations of Weber competed with the research results obtained in American and German sociology, history and political science. He shows how it was that, with the help of the concept of rationalization, Japanese Weber experts developed a model to explain the history and society of modern Japan after 1945.
(Text in German)
Important parts of Max Weber's works were translated into Japanese before World War II, and today there are more than 2,000 books and articles on Weber in print in Japanese.
The author deals with Weber's reception in Japan from 1905 to the present, and shows that the Japanese response to Weber is part of the history of the social sciences in Japan. He describes how specifically Japanese interpretations of Weber competed with the research results obtained in American and German sociology, history and political science. He shows how it was that, with the help of the concept of rationalization, Japanese Weber experts developed a model to explain the history and society of modern Japan after 1945.