372 Pages
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Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 2007. At the turn of the twentieth century, the author spent three years in Japan, at the heart of what he saw as a revolution. The modernization of the Meiji era was well underway, but far from complete. All around him, Watson saw orientalism and feudalism jostling with the twentieth century, in strange juxtapositions that produced a melange that he found inspiring,... Read more
1. A SPECTACLE OF PARADOX, 2. A FANTASY OF MYSTERY, 3. THE METROPOLIS OF A REVOLUTION, 4. TOKYO'S AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES, 5. MANNERS AND THE REVOLUTION, 6. A JAPANESE OUESTION?, 7. THE REVOLUTION CORRUPTED, 8. ON THE MARGINS OF THE SOUL, 9. PASSIVE REACTION, 10. REVOLUTION HAPPILY IMPOSSIBLE, 11. THE SYNTHETIC IN PLEASURES, 12. PARTING OF THE WAYS, 13. IN THE MACHINE SHOP, 14. THE MERCHANT AND HIS MORALS, 15. THE REVOLUTION'S MOTIF?, 16. THE COMMERCIAL IMAGINATION, 17. MEN V. FORMS IN POLITICS, 18. CONSTITUTIONAL INFANCY, 19. AN OLIGARCHY WITH EXCUSES, 20. PARTY POLITICS PRO FORMA, 21. THE GRAND EXPERIMENT, 22. CHAOS AND AN A B C POLICY, 23. A POTENTIAL DEMOCRACY?, 24. EDUCATION WITHOUT A CANON, 25. THE HIGH SCHOOL GIRL, 26. THE RECORD OF AN EXPERIENCE, 27. MlRABEAU AND RoUSSEAU, 28. WITH THE HIGH PRIESTS OF JAPANESE BUDDHISM, 29. CREEDS VIEWED OBJECTIVELY, 30. THE PSYCHIC LINK?, 31. HUMOURS OF THE TIME, 32. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE REVOLUTION, 33. SPIRIT OF THE REVOLUTION, 34. WELTPOLITIK OF THE REVOLUTION, 35. VIS A VIS THE TRADITION, 36. THE CLIMAX AND ITS PARABLE, 37. THE CRISIS
Biography
W. Petrie Watson
