Germaine A Hoston
Biographic Data
| ID | 333178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Germaine A Hoston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Germaine A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoston |
| SIGNATURE | HOSTON G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9956-2315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Civil society, the public sphere, and modernity in Japanese political thought
How fruitfully can the notions of civil society and the public sphere be applied to non-Western societies that do not share the socio-historical characteristics that generated them in Western Europe? Critical examination of the particular versus the universal in the construction of modernity in the civil society/public sphere framework highlights the antinomies of Western-defined modernity, particularly that between the imperatives of effective c…
A Neo-Confucian “Theology of Liberation”? Humanism and Ethics in Levinas, Liberation Theology, and Wang Yangming
This article reconsiders the sixteenth-century Idealist Neo-Confucian philosophy of Wang Yangming (1472–1529) in light of the development of twentieth-century Latin American liberation theology. After defining liberation theology, this study identifies the crucial contributions made to it by Emmanuel Levinas’s assertion of the primacy of ethics over ontology and critique of the egocentric nature of Western philosophy. It then delineates the epist…
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao
This article analyzes the remarkable congruence between the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Mao Zedong regarding the role of consciousness, human will, and culture in socioeconomic change. These spiritual and humanistic concerns that are central to philosophical idealism were prominent in the young Marx’s writings, to which neither had access. Yet both theorists highlighted these elements as powerful, autonomous factors that can impede or accelerate…
Revolutionary Confucianism? Neo-Confucian Idealism and Modern Chinese Revolutionary Thought
This article explores the relationship between materialism and philosophical idealism in the political philosophy of Marxist revolutionary movements, by illuminating the influence of Neo-Confucian idealism on the sinification of Marxism. Although they had virtually no access to the writings of the young Marx, Li Dazhao and Mao Zedong incorporated idealist philosophical ideas into their sinified Marxism. The resulting sinified Marxism constituted …
Neo-Confucianism and the Development of German Idealism
This article analyzes the influence of Chinese Neo-Confucianism on the development of German idealism. Information obtained by Leibniz from Jesuit missionaries included key concepts in Neo-Confucian philosophy that not only confirmed Leibniz's belief in the universality of his organic image of the cosmos but also influenced Leibniz's later writings. Such influence is also exhibited in Kant's work, especially in his crucial noumenon-phenomenon dis…
The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
The first decades of the 20th century witnessed an explosion of nationalist sentiment in East Asia, as in Europe. This comprehensive work explores how radical Chinese and Japanese thinkers committed to social change in this turbulent era addressed issues concerning national identity, social revolution and the role of the national state in achieving socio-economic development. Focusing on the adaptation of anarchism and then Marxism-Leninism to no…
Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space
Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 552p. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper.Muthiah Alagappa has assembled an impressive number of essays in this volume, which is the product of two workshops in Honolulu and Phnom Penh held in 2002. It offers contributions covering 12 countries by 14 contributors, organized by country
The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
Tenko: Ideology and Societal Integration in Prewar Japan
The State, Modernity, and the Fate of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
The Political Histories of Western Europe and the United States over the past three hundred years illustrate powerfully how the evolution of fully functioning liberal democratic politics has been linked intimately to the presence of vigorous thinkers and activists dedicated to the pursuit of a liberal polity. The social contract theory of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the constitutionalism of Baron Charles de Montesquieu, the laissez-fair…
Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu
Conceptualizing Bourgeois Revolution: The Prewar Japanese Left and the Meiji Restoration
That the Meiji Restoration marked Japan's proruption as a modern industrial nation-state has become a commonplace among those who study Japanese political history. The event may lack the romantic drama and mythology of the French revolutionary upheaval of almost a century before, yet the Restoration has remained a source of fascination for scholars seeking patterns in the events that transcend national boundaries to form the seamless web of human…
Ikkoku Shakai-shugi: Sano Manabu and the Limits of Marxism as Cultural Criticism
State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis
Individualism and Socialism: Kawai Eijiro's Life and Thought (1891-1944)
Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan
Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan
Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan
This study is a comprehensive analysis of the Marxist debate in Japan over how capitalism developed in that country. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and…
Marxism and Japanese Expansionism: "Takahashi Kamekichi and the Theory of "Petty Imperialism
Marxism and National Socialism in Taishō Japan: The Thought of Takabatake Motoyuki
Takabatake Motoyuki was one of several prewar Japanese socialists who combined the Marxian ideal of proletarian socialism with nationalism. The first to produce a full Japanese translation of Karl Marx'sCapitalin 1919, Takabatake formulated a doctrine of national or state socialism that same year and dedicated the rest of his life to the promotion of that ideal. While Takabatake continued to call himself a Marxist, he criticized Marx's understand…
Tenkō: Marxism & the National Question in Prewar Japan
The mass conversion (tenkō) of Japanese Marxists to the national cause in the 1930's may be viewed as an attempt to harmonize Marxism with local institutions and values. Professor Hoston argues below that the Japanese political tradition, embodied in the kokutai ideology, prompted Japanese Marxists to resolve the national question in Marxism in favor of nationalism and, in some cases, to reinterpret Marxism as a national socialism consistent with…
Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan
This study is a comprehensive analysis of the Marxist debate in Japan over how capitalism developed in that country. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and…
Tenkō: Marxism & the National Question in Prewar Japan
The mass conversion (tenkō) of Japanese Marxists to the national cause in the 1930's may be viewed as an attempt to harmonize Marxism with local institutions and values. Professor Hoston argues below that the Japanese political tradition, embodied in the kokutai ideology, prompted Japanese Marxists to resolve the national question in Marxism in favor of nationalism and, in some cases, to reinterpret Marxism as a national socialism consistent with…
Marxism and Japanese Expansionism: "Takahashi Kamekichi and the Theory of "Petty Imperialism
The State, Modernity, and the Fate of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
The Political Histories of Western Europe and the United States over the past three hundred years illustrate powerfully how the evolution of fully functioning liberal democratic politics has been linked intimately to the presence of vigorous thinkers and activists dedicated to the pursuit of a liberal polity. The social contract theory of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the constitutionalism of Baron Charles de Montesquieu, the laissez-fair…
Conceptualizing Bourgeois Revolution: The Prewar Japanese Left and the Meiji Restoration
That the Meiji Restoration marked Japan's proruption as a modern industrial nation-state has become a commonplace among those who study Japanese political history. The event may lack the romantic drama and mythology of the French revolutionary upheaval of almost a century before, yet the Restoration has remained a source of fascination for scholars seeking patterns in the events that transcend national boundaries to form the seamless web of human…
Marxism and National Socialism in Taishō Japan: The Thought of Takabatake Motoyuki
Takabatake Motoyuki was one of several prewar Japanese socialists who combined the Marxian ideal of proletarian socialism with nationalism. The first to produce a full Japanese translation of Karl Marx'sCapitalin 1919, Takabatake formulated a doctrine of national or state socialism that same year and dedicated the rest of his life to the promotion of that ideal. While Takabatake continued to call himself a Marxist, he criticized Marx's understand…
Revolutionary Confucianism? Neo-Confucian Idealism and Modern Chinese Revolutionary Thought
This article explores the relationship between materialism and philosophical idealism in the political philosophy of Marxist revolutionary movements, by illuminating the influence of Neo-Confucian idealism on the sinification of Marxism. Although they had virtually no access to the writings of the young Marx, Li Dazhao and Mao Zedong incorporated idealist philosophical ideas into their sinified Marxism. The resulting sinified Marxism constituted …
Neo-Confucianism and the Development of German Idealism
This article analyzes the influence of Chinese Neo-Confucianism on the development of German idealism. Information obtained by Leibniz from Jesuit missionaries included key concepts in Neo-Confucian philosophy that not only confirmed Leibniz's belief in the universality of his organic image of the cosmos but also influenced Leibniz's later writings. Such influence is also exhibited in Kant's work, especially in his crucial noumenon-phenomenon dis…
Tenkō: Marxism & the National Question in Prewar Japan
The mass conversion (tenkō) of Japanese Marxists to the national cause in the 1930's may be viewed as an attempt to harmonize Marxism with local institutions and values. Professor Hoston argues below that the Japanese political tradition, embodied in the kokutai ideology, prompted Japanese Marxists to resolve the national question in Marxism in favor of nationalism and, in some cases, to reinterpret Marxism as a national socialism consistent with…
Marxism and Japanese Expansionism: "Takahashi Kamekichi and the Theory of "Petty Imperialism
Marxism and National Socialism in Taishō Japan: The Thought of Takabatake Motoyuki
Takabatake Motoyuki was one of several prewar Japanese socialists who combined the Marxian ideal of proletarian socialism with nationalism. The first to produce a full Japanese translation of Karl Marx'sCapitalin 1919, Takabatake formulated a doctrine of national or state socialism that same year and dedicated the rest of his life to the promotion of that ideal. While Takabatake continued to call himself a Marxist, he criticized Marx's understand…
Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan
This study is a comprehensive analysis of the Marxist debate in Japan over how capitalism developed in that country. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and…
Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan
Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan
Individualism and Socialism: Kawai Eijiro's Life and Thought (1891-1944)
Ikkoku Shakai-shugi: Sano Manabu and the Limits of Marxism as Cultural Criticism
State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis
Conceptualizing Bourgeois Revolution: The Prewar Japanese Left and the Meiji Restoration
That the Meiji Restoration marked Japan's proruption as a modern industrial nation-state has become a commonplace among those who study Japanese political history. The event may lack the romantic drama and mythology of the French revolutionary upheaval of almost a century before, yet the Restoration has remained a source of fascination for scholars seeking patterns in the events that transcend national boundaries to form the seamless web of human…
The State, Modernity, and the Fate of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
The Political Histories of Western Europe and the United States over the past three hundred years illustrate powerfully how the evolution of fully functioning liberal democratic politics has been linked intimately to the presence of vigorous thinkers and activists dedicated to the pursuit of a liberal polity. The social contract theory of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the constitutionalism of Baron Charles de Montesquieu, the laissez-fair…
Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu
Tenko: Ideology and Societal Integration in Prewar Japan
The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space
Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 552p. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper.Muthiah Alagappa has assembled an impressive number of essays in this volume, which is the product of two workshops in Honolulu and Phnom Penh held in 2002. It offers contributions covering 12 countries by 14 contributors, organized by country
The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
The first decades of the 20th century witnessed an explosion of nationalist sentiment in East Asia, as in Europe. This comprehensive work explores how radical Chinese and Japanese thinkers committed to social change in this turbulent era addressed issues concerning national identity, social revolution and the role of the national state in achieving socio-economic development. Focusing on the adaptation of anarchism and then Marxism-Leninism to no…
Revolutionary Confucianism? Neo-Confucian Idealism and Modern Chinese Revolutionary Thought
This article explores the relationship between materialism and philosophical idealism in the political philosophy of Marxist revolutionary movements, by illuminating the influence of Neo-Confucian idealism on the sinification of Marxism. Although they had virtually no access to the writings of the young Marx, Li Dazhao and Mao Zedong incorporated idealist philosophical ideas into their sinified Marxism. The resulting sinified Marxism constituted …
Neo-Confucianism and the Development of German Idealism
This article analyzes the influence of Chinese Neo-Confucianism on the development of German idealism. Information obtained by Leibniz from Jesuit missionaries included key concepts in Neo-Confucian philosophy that not only confirmed Leibniz's belief in the universality of his organic image of the cosmos but also influenced Leibniz's later writings. Such influence is also exhibited in Kant's work, especially in his crucial noumenon-phenomenon dis…
A Neo-Confucian “Theology of Liberation”? Humanism and Ethics in Levinas, Liberation Theology, and Wang Yangming
This article reconsiders the sixteenth-century Idealist Neo-Confucian philosophy of Wang Yangming (1472–1529) in light of the development of twentieth-century Latin American liberation theology. After defining liberation theology, this study identifies the crucial contributions made to it by Emmanuel Levinas’s assertion of the primacy of ethics over ontology and critique of the egocentric nature of Western philosophy. It then delineates the epist…
Consciousness, will, and cultural revolution in Gramsci and Mao
This article analyzes the remarkable congruence between the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Mao Zedong regarding the role of consciousness, human will, and culture in socioeconomic change. These spiritual and humanistic concerns that are central to philosophical idealism were prominent in the young Marx’s writings, to which neither had access. Yet both theorists highlighted these elements as powerful, autonomous factors that can impede or accelerate…
Civil society, the public sphere, and modernity in Japanese political thought
How fruitfully can the notions of civil society and the public sphere be applied to non-Western societies that do not share the socio-historical characteristics that generated them in Western Europe? Critical examination of the particular versus the universal in the construction of modernity in the civil society/public sphere framework highlights the antinomies of Western-defined modernity, particularly that between the imperatives of effective c…
Political science (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Japanese History and Culture (14 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Economic history (7 works)