Introduction: Uneven Moments from Japan’s Modern History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Uneven Moments from Japan’s Modern History 1
5. PART I. IMMINENT CRITICISM AND ACADEMIC DISCOURSE: AREA STUDIES
6. 1. Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of “Globalism” 21
7. 2. “Memories of Underdevelopment” After Area Studies 48
8. PART II. CULTURAL FORM AND POLITICAL WITHDRAWAL: TOKUGAWA JAPAN
9. 3. Cultural Politics in Tokugawa Japan 73
10. 4. Late Tokugawa Culture and Thought 95
11. PART III. PATHWAYS TO MODERNITY’S PRESENT AND THE ENDURING EVERYDAY
12. 5. Shadowing History: National Narratives and the Persistence of the Everyday 177
13. 6. Overcome by Modernity: Fantasizing Everyday Life and the Discourse on the Social in Interwar Japan 198
14. 7. Time, Everydayness, and the Specter of Fascism: Tosaka Jun and Philosophy’s New Vocation 214
15. 8. Allegorizing History: Marxism, Hani Gorō, and the Demands of the Present 233
16. 9. Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History 255
17. 10. Reflections from Fukushima: History, Memory, and the Crisis of Contemporaneity 290
18. PART IV. IDEOLOGICAL FORMATION: COLLUDING WITH THE PAST
19. 11. Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies 303
20. 12. The Presence of Archaism/The Persistence of Fascism 326
21. Previously Published Materials 363
22. Index 365