Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan

Edited and translated by Richard Calichman

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February, 2008
Cloth, 248 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14396-7
$50.00 / £34.50

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. A Note on Contemporary Spirit

2. My Views on “Overcoming Modernity”

3. From Our Standpoint: Reflections on Overcoming Modernity

4. The Theological Grounds of Overcoming Modernity: How Can Modern Man Find God?

5. The Heart of Imperial Loyalty

6. The Course of Overcoming Modernity

7. What is to be destroyed?

8. A Brief Account

9. On the Overcoming of Science

10. Doubts Regarding “Modernity”

11. A Note on “Overcoming Modernity”

12. Concluding Remarks to “Overcoming Modernity”

13. Roundtable Discussion: Day One

14. Roundtable Discussion: Day Two

Symposium Participants

Glossary

Index of Names

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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