ABSTRACT

This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers. The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production in the interface between the immediate historical and the wider socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts accompanying the Japanese post-war experience of modernity.
This book will be of great value to anyone interested in the history of contemporary Japanese culture and society.

chapter |42 pages

‘Overcoming modernity'

Towards an aesthetic politics of identity

chapter |47 pages

Uneasy with the modern

The postwar revival of the modern and the return of dissent

chapter |50 pages

The age of rapid economic growth and romantic resurgence

Mass society and the erosion of popular politics and the social imaginary

chapter |45 pages

Back to identity

‘Postmodernity,' nihonjinron, and the desire of the other

chapter |50 pages

Japan in the 1990s and beyond

Identity crises in late modern conditions

chapter |63 pages

Japanese nationalism in the late modern world

In place of a conclusion