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The Periperal Centre
Essays on Japanese History
and Civilization
by Johann Arnason
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Arnason deals with the complex relationship between
patterns of Japanese modernity and the civilizational legacy on which
they draw. He discusses the East Asian regional context of Japanese
civilization, deals with the dynamics of state formation and the
attendant cultural transformations in premodern Japan, and suggests ways
of comparing the Japanese experience to that of the west. Presenting
Japan as a test case for relating the emerging problematic of multiple
modernities to civilizational perspectives, Arnason examines the
economic foundations as well as philosophical self-interpretations of
Japanese modernity.
Contents
Preface, Acknowledgements
The peripheral centre and its transformations
East Asian approaches: Region, history and civilization
Comparing Japan: The return to Asia
Is Japan a civilization sui generis?
State formation in Japan and the West
Elias in Japan: State formation, military elites and organized violence
Multiple modernities and civilizational contexts: Reflections on the
Japanese experience
Miracles and mirages: Comparative perspectives on Japanese capirtalism
Published by Trans Pacific Press
Published 2002, 234 pp.
ISBN 1 876843 95 0, hardback, £48.00
ISBN 1 876843 07 1, paperback, £19.99
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