基本説明
A coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri.
Full Description
Postmodernism and Japan is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism, as described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri, from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western "enlightenment" wealth and power. This work provides a unique view of a society in transition and confronting, like its models in the West, the problems induced by the introduction of new forms of knowledge, modes of production, and social relationships.
Contents
Introduction / Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian vii
Note on Japanese Names xxii
On Culture and Technology in Postmodern Japan / Tetsuo Najita 3
Critical Texts, Mass Artifacts: The Consumption of Knowledge in Postmodern Japan / Marilyn Ivy 21
Of City, Nation, and Style / Isozaki Arata 47
Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies / H. D. Harootunian 63
Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism / Naoki Sakai 93
Maruyama Masao and the Incomplete Project of Modernity / J. Victor Koschmann 123
Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the "Postmodern" West / Masao Miyoshi 143
Somehow: The Postmodern as Atmosphere / Norma Field 169
Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma / Ōe Kenzaburō 189
Suicide and the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm? / Alan Wolfe 215
Karatani Kōjin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature / Brett De Bary 235
Infantile Capitalism and Japan's Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale / Asada Akira 273
Picturing Japan: Reflections on the Workshop / Stephen Melville 279
Glossary 289
Notes on Contributors 297
Index 299
