ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |162 pages
The Civilizational Background
chapter |45 pages
Japan in Context: The West, the East and the Far East
chapter |27 pages
Cultural Patterns and Civilizational Complexes
chapter |88 pages
The Constitution of the Japanese Tradition
part |92 pages
Court, Domain and State
chapter |28 pages
Japan and Europe
chapter |62 pages
Decomposition and Reconstruction
part |93 pages
The Tokugawa Synthesis
chapter |33 pages
Pseudo-archaism and Proto-modernity
chapter |58 pages
Crisis, Containment and Transformation
part |154 pages
Japanese Patterns of Modernity