(OPE-L) The Social Sciences in Modern Japan, 1890-1990 Andrew E. Barshay

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The Social Sciences in Modern Japan, 1890-1990
Andrew E. Barshay



Product Details:
ISBN: 0520236459
Format: Hardcover, 336pp
Pub. Date: March 2004   Publisher: University of California Press

 Table of Contents
Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Social Science as History

2. The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: An Overview

3. Doubly Cruel: Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism

4. Thinking through Capital: Uno Kozo and Marxian Political Economy

5. School's Out? The Uno School Meets Japanese Capitalism

6. Social Science and Ethics: Civil Society Marxism

7. Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan: Maruyama Masao as a Political Thinker

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

From the Publisher
This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from
the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity
that the processes of "development" or "rationalization" have
engendered and the role social scientists have played in their
emergence. Andrew E. Barshay argues that Japan, together with Germany
and pre-revolutionary Russia, represented forms of developmental
alienation from the Atlantic Rim symptomatic of late-emerging
empires. Neither members nor colonies of the Atlantic Rim, these were
independent national societies whose cultural self-image was
nevertheless marked by a sense of difference.

Barshay presents a historical overview of major Japanese trends and
treats two of the most powerful streams of Japanese social science,
one associated with Marxism, the other with Modernism (kindaishugi),
whose most representative figure is the late Maruyama Masao.
Demonstrating that a sense of developmental alienation shaped the
thinking of social scientists in both streams, the author argues that
they provided Japanese social science with moments of shared
self-understanding.
 Synopsis
An intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to
the present day. The theme is that of development/ rationalization,
the various forms of modernity this process has engendered, and the
role social scientists have played in it.