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Ambivalent Moderns

Portraits of Japanese Cultural Identity

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ID2866698
AuthorsWesley Sasaki-Uemura, Wesley Sasaki‐Uemura (University of Utah, corresponding author), Lawrence Olson
Year1994
Volume67
Issue1
Pages124
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePacific Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2760139
OpenAlexW2120102131
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Although Western scholars have examined many aspects of contemporary Japan, Japanese postwar intellectual history has largely been overlooked. In this book, Olson introduces readers to four prominent postwar Japanese intellectuals whose writings illustrate the principal alternative native paths through which they sought to redefine their cultural identity and arrive at the meaning of Japanese nationality after defeat in World War II. Although virtually unknown outside Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi, Tsurumi Shunsuke, Et Jun and Yoshimoto Takaaki found a wide audience for their books and artifices in leading journals. Behind their wall of linguistic and psychological isolation, these intellectuals weigh and go on weighing endlessly the relative value of traditional Japanese culture

Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Genealogy · Identity (music) · Immigration · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Nationality · Portrait · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,14
Citation span1997 - 2017 (21)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2

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