Name: The Turn Against the Modern: The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun 1870-1912 (Asia Past & Present) (en Inglés)
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Author: Ronald P. Loftus
ISBN: 9780924304842

portada The Turn Against the Modern: The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun 1870-1912 (Asia Past & Present) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Assn For Asian Studies Inc

Autor

Ronald P. Loftus

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

340

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780924304842

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The Turn Against the Modern: The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun 1870-1912 (Asia Past & Present) (en Inglés)

Ronald P. Loftus (Autor) · Assn For Asian Studies Inc · Tapa Blanda

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The Turn Against the Modern is a biography of the late Meiji social and cultural critic Taoka Reiun (18701912) who was known for his fierce attack on modernity. Reiun was convinced that the western conception of modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was based on an overly narrow, materialistic view of the worldone that placed far too much emphasis on commerce, profit, and utilitarianismand he believed that this concept was rapidly emptying life of its richness, depth, and meaning. He, therefore, could not help but decry a world that had squandered its spirit and vitality, forsaken its grandiose visions, and lost its sense of mystery, its very soul! A careful reader of philosophy, religion, and literature, Reiun embraced a vision of history, society, and the future that marks him as an original and creative thinker whose understanding of what it means to be modern and human remains alive and vital today. This study vividly brings to life an overlooked contrarian whose writings tell us that Japans modernization process was much more complex and controversial than the standard Meiji progress narrative would have us believe. Taoka Reiun comes through in this exhaustively researched study as a powerful critic who thought capitalist materialism had robbed Japan of its soula much-censored opponent of slavish Westernization who insisted that modernity should spring from the creation of autonomous individuals (women as well as men). Loftuss analysis is incisive; his attention to Reiuns tumultuous personal life brings special energy to the work.