One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan

by Adam Bronson

After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of the Institute for the Science of Thought, one of the most influential associations to emerge in the early postwar years. The institute's founders believed that the estrangement of intellectuals from the general public had contributed to the rise of fascism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824855337
• ISBN13: 9780824855338
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"