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" Defending Japan's Pacific war : "
David Williams.
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995048
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b749418
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Williams, David,1948 July 19-
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Defending Japan's Pacific war : : the Kyoto School Philosophers and post-white power /\ David Williams.
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London ;New York, N.Y. :: RoutledgeCurzon,, 2004.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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0203342836
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: 0415323142
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: 0415323150
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: 9780203342831
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: 9780415323147
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: 9780415323154
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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This book 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 back on the West and attack the United States and.
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Philosophy-- Japan-- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Japan.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Eastern.
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Philosophy.
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Japan.
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181/.12
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B5241.W55 2004eb
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