Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan

Edited and translated by Richard Calichman

February, 2008
Cloth, 248 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14396-7
$45.00 / £31.00

"An important text for anyone interested in the challenges to modernity in historical Japan or in much of the contemporary world . . . Highly Recommended." — CHOICE

"Calichman’s English version of Overcoming Modernity . . . is without doubt an excellent achievement and will be indispensable reading for any serious student of modern Japan." — Yasunari Takada, Journal of Japanese Studies

"Here, in a well-polished and interpreted translation, is the defining cultural text of wartime Japan. This collective inquiry into the possibility of attaining a modernity beyond that proffered by the West, so important in Japan's past, also resonates with the world's present, which has yet to solve—or overcome—the challenge of the modern." — Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• East Asian Studies

Series

• Weatherhead Books on Asia

About the Author

Richard F. Calichman is an associate professor of Japan Studies and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the City College of New York, CUNY. His previous publications include Contemporary Japanese Thought, What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, and Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West.

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