Johann P. Arnason

Social Theory and Japanese Experience

The Dual Civilization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1997. This book is addressed to two kinds of readers: to social theorists, on the grounds that the Japanese experience is or should be of particular relevance to their problems, and to scholars working on Japanese history, culture and society, in the hope that the theoretical interpretations outlined below may be of some interest to them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 580
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 720g
• ISBN-13: 9781138982314
• ISBN-10: 1138982318
• Artikelnr.: 57051508

Autorenporträt

Johann P. Arnason

Inhaltsangabe

Part I The Civilizational Background
Chapter 1 Japan in Context: The West, the East and the Far East
Chapter 2 Cultural Patterns and Civilizational Complexes
Chapter 3 The Constitution of the Japanese Tradition
Part II Court, Domain and State
Chapter 4 Japan and Europe
Chapter 5 Decomposition and Reconstruction
Part III The Tokugawa Synthesis
Chapter 6 Pseudo-archaism and Proto-modernity
Chapter 7 Crisis, Containment and Transformation
Part IV Japanese Patterns of Modernity
Chapter 8 Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 9 Modernization and Westernization
Chapter 10 The Japanese Reinvention of Capitalism