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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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<p>'Defending Japan's Pacific War is a major achievement for which the author must be congratulated. A necessarily selective review cannot do full justice to it. Its deserves a wide readership beyond Japan studies.' - Kenn Nakata Steffensen, Department of Political and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. <p> <p>'Williams's Pacific War revisionism, in the western liberal mode is uncompromising . He has offered no quarter and taken no prisoner's. His impassioned arguement for his case and his equally passionate attack on those he disagrees with may upset some, but even then it stimulates thought and critical self - reflection.'- Kenn Nakata Steffensen, Department of Political and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. Read more...
