Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological EnquiryRoutledge, 18/10/2005 - 284 من الصفحات The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book aims to illuminate that debate from a comparative and theoretical perspective. It also tests theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study. |
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... remarks that the nihonjz'nron 'are concentrated expressions of an intense tradition of intellectual nationalism whose broader impact on both our general way of interpreting Japan and specialist studies remains to be analysed' (1986: ii) ...
... remark on nineteenth-century German intellectuals' preoccupation with German uniqueness: 'It is characteristic of the Germans that the question “what is German?” never dies out among them' ([1886] 1990: 174). Such an intellectual ...
... remarks that 'hora, although a bit too ambiguous for the uninformed Westerner to understand easily, is what the japanese comfortably identify with' (1984: 31). For the japanese, reality cannot be grasped through concepts and ideas. The ...
... remarks that 'sociology being the kind of discipline it is, any attempt to define its field without taking into account actors' own subjective definitions of the situation must be seriously inadequate' (1970: 161). Similarly, Banton ...
... remarks with reference to the japanese view of japanese nationality that 'what makes a japanese, more than anything else, is “blood'” (1972: 34). He refers to this mode of thinking critically as jun/retsu-shugi (pure-blood-ism). The ...
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comparative perspectives | 39 |
a critical review | 68 |
the holistic tradition in theories of modem Japan | 87 |
Chapter 6 Perceptions of Japanese uniqueness among educators and businessmen | 104 |
the response of educators and businessmen to the nihonjinron | 133 |
Chapter 8 Leading business elites nationalism and cultural nationalism | 158 |
Chapter 9 Explanations of the nihonjinron | 185 |
Chapter 10 Resurgent cultural nationalism and prudent revivalist nationalism | 203 |
Notes | 227 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 263 |