Harry Harootunian

Datos Biográficos

ID219893
NOMBREHarry Harootunian
NOMBRESHarry
APELLIDOHarootunian
FIRMAHAROOTUNIAN H
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Chicago
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS122
TOTAL DE CITAS257
TOTAL COMO AUTOR112
TOTAL COMO EDITOR10
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1959
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H7

  • Closing Time”

    Harry HarootunianARTICLEboundary 22024Referencias: 1

    While David Peace's epic Tokyo Trilogy concentrates on the years after Japan's defeat in 1945 and the city of Tokyo as a classic crime scene, this essay proposes that the traditional pursuit of detection recedes in importance compared to the time of the “postwar,” a new category of periodization initiated by the military occupation, which would become the temporal scaffolding of the renewing of Japanese society. This category was situated at the …

  • Archaism and Actuality

    Harry Harootunian, Harry D HarootunianBOOKArchaism and Actuality2023

  • Tomba’s Unforgotten Histories

    Harry Harootunian, Harry D HarootunianARTICLEHistorical Materialism2022

    The aim of Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality is to return to Marxism’s original historical vocation by freeing it from the hegemony of the exchange system and the encompassing agency of value. At the heart of this project appears the recognition that time, space and thus history have been captured by capitalism and transformed into categories of its own to organise people and social relationships for capital’s programme of accumulation.…

  • Nation and Religion

    Benedict Anderson, Talal Asad et al.BOOKNation and Religion2020

  • Japan’s Long Postwar

    Open AccessHarry HarootunianCHAPTERJapan after Japan2020

  • Uneven Moments

    Harry HarootunianBOOKUneven Moments2019

    Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian's essays on Japan's intellectual and cultural history from the late Tokugawa period to the present that span the many phases of his distinguished…

  • As We Saw Him

    Harry HarootunianARTICLEboundary 22019Referencias: 5

    The essay attempts to present and thus see the literary scholar, activist, and thinker Masao Miyoshi as we constantly saw him crossing the boundaries between the United States and Japan and eventually enlarging his vision to include the world at large. But the act of seeing Miyoshi and his ceaseless effort to overcome the boundaries separating people was paralleled by his voracious desire to cross the boundaries that divided the disciplines of kn…

  • Deprovincializing Marx

    Harry HarootunianCHAPTEREast-Asian Marxisms and Their…2017

    This chapter discusses the category of "Western Marxism". It examines how its particular hegemony during the Cold War conjuncture eclipsed both the claims associated with its long history in Russia and the Soviet Union but also excluded Marxian readings that occurred in the colonial and semi-colonial world of Euro-America's periphery before World War II and throughout what came to be named as the Third World in the post-war years. The chronicler …

  • Surplus Histories, Excess Memories

    Harry HarootunianARTICLEHistorical Materialism2017Referencias: 1

    In the reckoning of historian Enzo Traverso, the accumulative inventory of the past’s crimes has exceeded the ‘frontiers of historical research’ and colonised the public sphere to ‘interpellate our present’. The quarrel over the crisis of historicism before World War ii has been superseded by postwar debates that have now spilled over into everyday life that demand recognition as instances of the continuing collision of claims of a past that refu…

  • Other people's history

    Harry HarootunianARTICLEJapan Forum2017Referencias: 2

    Take this worldAnd all it's becomeI want to get out of this placeWe're all living under the sunWe're just staring into space... Popular SongNot long ago I began to think about how my parents separate

  • Marx After Marx

    Harry HarootunianBOOKMarx After Marx2015

  • Piercing the Present with the Past

    Harry HarootunianARTICLEHistorical Materialism2015Referencias: 2

    This response to Tomba’s Marx’s Temporalities homes in on its critical interrogation of linear conceptions of development which have distorted Marxism’s capacity to seize the present. The article foregrounds the resources on which Tomba draws, from Walter Benjamin’s theses on history to Marx’s account of the struggles over the working day, and enlists them in an encounter with the questions of unevenness, archaism and pre-capitalism in Postcoloni…

  • Reflections from Fukushima

    Harry HarootunianARTICLEboundary 22015Citada por: 1

    In this essay, I propose that the forced convergence of history and memory in Fukushima resulted in singularizing expressions of experience and memory, thus inducing survivors to focus on the immediate context of the everyday itself rather than the nation and national history, which increasingly were seen as distant and abstract manifestations. The response to the historical event was to individualize experience. Survivors were driven to recall t…

  • Philosophy of History's Return

    Open AccessHarry HarootunianARTICLEHistory and Theory2015

    Kojin Karatani's Structure of World History seeks to rescue the philosophy of history and restore to it the relationship between philosophical reflection and historical practice. This connection is particularly pertinent in Karatani's case since he had earlier worked out the philosophical scaffolding of this monumental study in his book Transcritique: On Kant and Marx, which embarked on a "return to Capital once more to read the potential that ha…

  • Ontology of Production

    Open AccessKitaro Nishida, William Nishida Kitaro et al.BOOKOntology of Production2012

    Ontology of Production presents three essays by the influential Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945), translated for the first time into English by William Haver. While previous translations of his writings have framed Nishida within Asian or Oriental philosophical traditions, Haver's introduction and approach to the texts rightly situate the work within Nishida's own commitment to Western philosophy. In particular, Haver focuses on Ni…

  • Memories of Underdevelopment” after Area Studies

    Harry HarootunianARTICLEpositions asia critique2012Citada por: 4Referencias: 2

    The purpose of this article is to examine how the construction of a desire called area studies was founded on the privilege accorded to fixed spatial units such as the geographical area, culture region, and the directional localities west, east, south, and so forth. The model for such spatial regularities has been the nation-state form, itself a predominantly spatial figure, and its capacity for modernizing transformation leading to the establish…

  • Overcome by Modernity

    Harry Harootunian, Harry D HarootunianBOOKOvercome by Modernity2011

    In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass culture is the focus of Harry Harootunian's fascinating inquiry into the problems of modernity. Here he examines the work of a generation of Japanese…

  • Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World

    Open AccessHarry Harootunian, Rebecca E Karl et al.BOOKMao Zedong and China in the…2010

    Preface and acknowledgements -- China in the world in Mao's youth -- From liberal to communist, 1912/1921 -- Toward the peasant revolution, 1921/1927 -- Establishing revolutionary bases : from Jinggangshan to Yan'an, 1928/1935 -- Yan'an, the war of resistance against Japan, and civil war, 1935/1949 -- Stabilizing society and the transition to socialism, 1949/1957 -- Great leap and restoration, 1958/1965 -- The cultural revolution : politics in co…

  • Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature

    Open AccessEdward Mack, Rey Chow et al.BOOKManufacturing Modern Japanese…2010

  • Nationalizing History and the Challenge of Discordant Temporalities 1

    Open AccessHarry HarootunianARTICLEHistory and Theory2010

    Christopher Hill's National History and the World of Nations reminds us of the conjunctural moment of an emerging world market in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the promise it offered for vitalizing a “world history” yet to be written. More importantly, it supplies the silhouette of a radically different interpretive approach, formed by the force of a centrifugal perspective that—through its concentration on how France, the United …

  • Modernity' and the claims of untimeliness

    Harry HarootunianARTICLEPostcolonial Studies2010Citada por: 1

    It will be my purpose to show that the examples of alternative modernities we have before us today ultimately remained captive to the cycle of representation and to a logic of the same, despite their heroic efforts to break with both. Where all these alternative and multiple modernities—from the pre-war Japanese effort to ‘overcome the modern’ to more recent attempts to imagine a post-colonial condition—fail to offer a genuinely different concept…

  • Constitutive Ambiguities

    Open AccessHarry HarootunianCHAPTERCulture of Japanese Fascism2009

  • The Culture of Japanese Fascism

    Open AccessAlan Tansman, Rey Chow et al.BOOKThe Culture of Japanese Fascism2009

    This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of political structures and events. Contributors from history, literature, film, art history, and anthropology describe a culture of fascism in Japan in the decades preceding the end of the Asia-Pacific War. In so doing, they challenge past scholarship, which has generally rejected descriptions of pre-19…

  • South Koreans in the Debt Crisis

    Open AccessHarry Harootunian, Jesook Song et al.BOOKSouth Koreans in the Debt Crisis2009

  • Japan’s Holy War

    Harry Harootunian, Walter Skya et al.BOOKJapan's Holy War2009

    Japan's Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new information, Walter A. Skya demonstrates that whatever other motives the Japanese had for waging war in Asia and the Pacific, for many the war was the fulfillment of a religious mandate. In the early twentieth century, a fervent nationalism developed within State Shintō. This ultranationalism gained …