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Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History

Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History

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  • Harry Harootunian
  • Columbia University Press
  • Hardcover
  • 9780231190206
  • 9.3 X 6.2 X 1 inches
  • 1.5 pounds
  • History > Asia - Japan
  • English
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Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian's essays on Japan's intellectual and cultural history from the late Tokugawa period to the present that span the many phases of his distinguished career and point to new directions for Japanese studies.

Uneven Moments begins with reflections on area studies as an academic field and how we go about studying a region. It then moves into discussions of key topics in modern Japanese history. Harootunian considers Japan's fateful encounter with capitalist modernity and the implications of uneven development, examining the combinations of older practices with new demands that characterized the twentieth century. The book examines the making of modern Japan, the transformations of everyday life, and the collision between the production of forms of cultural expression and new political possibilities. Finally, Harootunian analyzes Japanese political identity and its forms of reckoning with the past. Exploring the shifting relationship among culture, the making of meaning, and politics in rich reflections on Marxism and critical theory, Uneven Moments presents Harootunian's intellectual trajectory and in so doing offers a unique assessment of Japanese history.

Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History

Author Bio

Harry Harootunian is professor emeritus of New York University and his research interests include early modern and modern Japanese history, and historical theory.

Professor Harootunian received his B.A. from Wayne State (1951), M.A. in Far Eastern Studies and Ph.D. 1958 in History from Michigan. 

His prolific publications include 

History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice and the Question of the Everyday Life (Columbia UP, 2000), 

Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Commodity in Interwar Japan (Princeton UP, 2000), 

Japan in the World, ed. with Masao Miyoshi (Duke UP, 1993), and 

Postmodernism in Japan, with Masao Miyoshi (Duke UP, 1989).

Professor Harootunian was formerly the Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, the Dean of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, editor of Journal for Asian Studies, and co-editor of Critical Inquiry.

 

Source: NYU Arts & Science 

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