History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life

by Harry D. Harootunian and Harry Harootunian

Book Overview

Acclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoretical, that compartmentalize the world around us. In one of the first works to explore on equal footing European and Japanese conceptions of modernity--as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun--Harootunian seeks to expose the problematic nature of scholarly categories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231117957
• ISBN13: 9780231117951
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher