Cornell University Press
Tosaka Jun
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About this book
Tosaka Jun (1900–1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka.
Author / Editor information
Ken C. Kawashima is Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. He is the author of The Proletarian Gamble, and the English translator of Uno Kozo's Theory of Crisis. Currently, he is researching the history of recorded sound and music.
Fabian Schäfer is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is the author of Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology, and editor of Tosaka Jun.
Robert Stolz is Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese History, University of Virginia. He is the author of Bad Water. His current research is on the relationship between ecology, capitalism, and politics. He has published in Japan Forum and The Asia-Pacific Journal.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction: “The Darkness of the Lived Moment”
XV - PART I The Texts
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The Principle of Everydayness and Historical Time
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On Space (Introduction and Conclusion)
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The Academy and Journalism
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Laughter, Comedy, and Humor
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The Fate of Japanism: From Fascism to Emperorism
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Theory of the Intelligentsia and Theory of Technology: Proposing to Reexamine the Theory of Technology
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Liberalist Philosophy and Materialism: Against the Two Types of Liberalist Philosophy
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The Police Function
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Film as a Reproduction of the Present: Custom and the Masses
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Film Art and Film: Toward the Function of Abstraction
114 - PART II Critical Expansions
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Here, Now: Everyday Space as Cultural Critique
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The Actuality of Journalism and the Possibility of Everyday Critique
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The Dialectic of Laughter and Tosaka’s Critical Theory
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Immaterial Technique and Mass Intelligence: Tosaka Jun on Technology
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Filmic Materiality and Historical Materialism: Tosaka Jun and the Prosthetics of Sensation
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Notes toward a Critical Analysis of Chronic Recession and Ideology: Tosaka Jun on the Police Function
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The Multitude and the Holy Family: Empire, Fascism, and the War Machine
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Notes on the Contributors
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Index
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