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The Failure of Freedom : A Portrait of Modern Japanese Intellectuals / Tatsuo Arima.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard East Asian Series ; 39Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1969Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674280106
  • 9780674280113
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 915.2/03/320922
LOC classification:
  • DS822.4 ǂb A756 1969eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. THE REVOLUTIONARY RESTORATION -- II. UCHIMURA KANZŌ: THE POLITICS OF SPIRITUAL DESPAIR -- III. THE ANARCHISTS: THE NEGATION OF POLITICS -- IV. JAPANESE NATURALISM: THE LIMITATIONS OF EXPERIENCE -- V. THE SHIRAKABA-HA: THE TYRANNY OF ART -- VI. ARISHIMA TAKEO: BOURGEOIS CRITICISM -- VII. AKUTAGAWA RYŪNOSUKE: THE LITERATURE OF DEFEATISM -- VIII. PROLETARIAN LITERATURE: THE TYRANNY OF POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX
Summary: An excellent introduction to Japanese intellectual history in the first third of the twentieth century, this is a study of the intellectual atmosphere that made the development of a constitutional form of government difficult. As heirs to the Meiji Restoration, modern Japanese intellectuals were trapped by the historical paradox that modern Japan was born not so much of the victory of the new forces over the old, as of the skillful self-transformation of the old forces themselves. To reject parts of new Japanese society often meant to reject the whole of it.Tatsuo Arima examines the period's philosophical and religious writings and the main literary figures and groups and their works and theories about literature. He finds a widespread anticonstitutional mentality and relates it to the intellectuals' political behavior. In particular, he analyzes the reasons why prewar Japanese intellectuals, who seemed to be so opposed to the rise of nationalism, took no socially effective action to prevent its emergence and subsequently became its victims.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. THE REVOLUTIONARY RESTORATION -- II. UCHIMURA KANZŌ: THE POLITICS OF SPIRITUAL DESPAIR -- III. THE ANARCHISTS: THE NEGATION OF POLITICS -- IV. JAPANESE NATURALISM: THE LIMITATIONS OF EXPERIENCE -- V. THE SHIRAKABA-HA: THE TYRANNY OF ART -- VI. ARISHIMA TAKEO: BOURGEOIS CRITICISM -- VII. AKUTAGAWA RYŪNOSUKE: THE LITERATURE OF DEFEATISM -- VIII. PROLETARIAN LITERATURE: THE TYRANNY OF POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX

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An excellent introduction to Japanese intellectual history in the first third of the twentieth century, this is a study of the intellectual atmosphere that made the development of a constitutional form of government difficult. As heirs to the Meiji Restoration, modern Japanese intellectuals were trapped by the historical paradox that modern Japan was born not so much of the victory of the new forces over the old, as of the skillful self-transformation of the old forces themselves. To reject parts of new Japanese society often meant to reject the whole of it.Tatsuo Arima examines the period's philosophical and religious writings and the main literary figures and groups and their works and theories about literature. He finds a widespread anticonstitutional mentality and relates it to the intellectuals' political behavior. In particular, he analyzes the reasons why prewar Japanese intellectuals, who seemed to be so opposed to the rise of nationalism, took no socially effective action to prevent its emergence and subsequently became its victims.

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