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Difference and Modernity Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society
By John Clammer
Copyright 1995
160 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
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Routledge
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The question of ‘postmodernity’ that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged... Read more
1. Introduction: Theorizing Japanese Society 2. From Modernity to Postmodernity? 3. High Culture/Mass Culture and the Experience of Late Modernity 4. Modernity and Lifestyle in the Japanese City 5. Natural Being/Social Being 6. Modernity and the Self 7. Hierarchy, ‘Group’ and Individual 8. Social Theory and the Particularities of Asian Modernity Bibliography. Index.
Biography
John Clammer
