© Columbia University Press
Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan
February, 2008
Cloth, 248 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14396-7
$50.00
/ £34.50
"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
"Calichman has formulated a powerful and radical philosophical critique. " — Christian Uhl, Monumenta Nippocica
"The book is not only essential reading for scholars of Japanese intellectual and political history, but also of interest to anyone concerned with the crisis of modernity and various reactions to it. " — Viren Murthy, Social History
"...the collection, finely translated by Calichman, will be indispensable for the study of Japan’s modern intellectual history and as such is to be highly recommended." — Christopher W. A. Szpilman, Pacific Affairs
"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