What Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi

Takeuchi Yoshimi

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Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13327-2
$29.50 / £20.50

January, 2005
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13326-5
$90.00 / £62.00

"Reading Takeuchi... sheds light on key issues in discussions of postmodernism, nationalism, and postcolonialism." — Choice

"Highly recommended as a valuable text." — Steven Heine, Journal of Japanese Studies

"Takeuchi Yoshimi is one of the most challenging and astute thinkers of modernity. While he searches for the emergence of critical awareness and freedom amid the restless movement of negation, he also issues a profound challenge to the politics of ressentiment that have plagued Japanýs and other non-Western's nations relation to the West. The appearance of his writings in English is a major event." — Thomas Lamarre, McGill University

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

Series

• Weatherhead Books on Asia

About the Author

Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) was an eminent scholar, literary and social critic, and sinologist. He was the translator of Lu Xun's works into Japanese. Richard Calichman is an assistant professor of Japanese Studies at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is the author of Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West.

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