Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan

by J. Victor Koschmann

Book Overview

After World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bourgeois democracy and then socialism. But who would be the agents--the active "subjects"--of that revolution in Japan? Intensely debated at the time, this question of active subjectivity influenced popular ideas about nationalism and social change that still affect Japanese political culture today.

In a major contribution to modern Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226451224
• ISBN13: 9780226451220
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"