Columbia University Press
Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History
Key Metrics
- Harry Harootunian
- Columbia University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780231190206
- 9.3 X 6.2 X 1 inches
- 1.5 pounds
- History > Asia - Japan
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
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.
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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