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Defending Japan's Pacific war : the Kyoto school philosophers and post-white power
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Defending Japan's Pacific war : the Kyoto school philosophers and post-white power

Author: David Williams
Publisher: New York ; London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This work puts forward a revisionist view of Japanese wartime thinking. It seeks to explore why Japanese intellectuals, historians and philosophers of the time insisted that Japan had to turn its  Read more...

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Named Person: Martin Heidegger
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Williams
ISBN: 0415323142 9780415323147 0415323150 9780415323154
OCLC Number: 59876431
Description: 256 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Rise and fall: 1. Roman questions: American empire and the Kyoto school --
2. Revisionism and the end of white America in Japan studies --
The decay of Pacific war orthodoxy: 3. Philosophy and the Pacific war, Imperial Japan and the making of a post-white world --
4. Scholarship or propaganda, Neo-Marxism and the decay of Pacific war orthodoxy --
5. Wartime Japan as it really was, The Kyoto school's struggle against Tojo, 1941-44 --
In defence of the kyoto school: 6. Taking Kyoto philosophy seriously --
7. Racism and the black legend of the Kyoto school --
Translating Tanabe's the logic of the species: 8. When is a philosopher a moral monster?, Tanabe versus Heidegger versus Marcuse --
Nazism and the crises of the Kyoto school : 9. Heidegger, Nazism and the farmas affair --
The European origins of the Kyoto school crises: 10. Heidegger and the wartime Kyoto school --
After farmas, the first paradigm crisis (1987-1996): 11. Nazism is no excuse, after farmas- the allied Gaze and the second crisis (1997-2002) --
After america, philosophy: 12. Nothing shall be spared, a manifesto on the future of Japan studies.
Responsibility: David Williams.

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