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Social Theory and Japanese Experience The Dual Civilization

By Johann P. Arnason Copyright 1997
    580 Pages
    by Routledge

    580 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1997. This book is addressed to two kinds of readers: to social theorists,
    on the grounds that the Japanese experience is or should be of
    particular relevance to their problems, and to scholars working
    on Japanese history, culture and society, in the hope that the
    theoretical interpretations outlined below may be of some interest
    to them.

    Part I The Civilizational Background; Chapter 1 Japan in Context: The West, the East and the Far East; Chapter 2 Cultural Patterns and Civilizational Complexes; Chapter 3 The Constitution of the Japanese Tradition; Part II Court, Domain and State; Chapter 4 Japan and Europe; Chapter 5 Decomposition and Reconstruction; Part III The Tokugawa Synthesis; Chapter 6 Pseudo-archaism and Proto-modernity; Chapter 7 Crisis, Containment and Transformation; Part IV Japanese Patterns of Modernity; Chapter 8 Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 9 Modernization and Westernization; Chapter 10 The Japanese Reinvention of Capitalism;

    Biography

    Johann P. Arnason

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