368 Pages
by
Routledge
362 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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The central argument of Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science is that Eurocentric blindness is not a moral but a scientific failing. In this wide-ranging critique of Western social science, Anglo-American philosophy and French theory, Williams works on the premise that Japan is the most important political system of our time. He explains why social scientists have been so keen to... Read more
Japanese conventions and English usage Part I Japan: the splendour of its prime 1 Japan and the European political canon 2 Where are the masters? Part II Japanese greatness and the European inheritance Science 3 Positivism 4 Empiricism 5 Orientalism Words 6 Languages 7 Criticism 8 Readers 9 Philosophies 10 Thinkers 11 Classics Part III On classic ground 12 Japan and the end of political scientific marginality: the argument restated
Biography
David Williams is Senior Research Fellow in Japanese Politics at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. He is the author of Japan: Beyond the End of History (Routledge 1994).
