Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought (eBook)

Thomas R.H. Havens (Autor)

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2015
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6942-8 (ISBN)

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A nineteenth-century aristocrat, Nishi Amane (1829-1897) was one of the first Japanese to assert the supremacy of Western culture. He was sent by his government to Leiden to study the European social sciences; on his return to Japan shortly before the climactic Meiji Restoration of 1868 he introduced and adapted European utilitarianism and positivism to his country's intellectual world. To modernize, Nishi held, Japan must cast off the bonds of the Confucian world-view in order to adopt new principles of empirical scholarly investigation and new standards of self-improvement. Though a Confucian by upbringing, Nishi became thoroughly committed to Western intellectual values in his programs for the new Japanese society. In his roles of teacher, writer, and government administrator, he was influential at one of the most critical times in Japan’s history.Originally published in 1970.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Age of Enlightenment • Aizawa Seishisai • Analects • Asano • Bakumatsu • Buddhism • Chuo University • Confucianism • Confucius • Daimyo • Doctrine • Early Modern Europe • Edo Period • Empire of Japan • Ernest Nagel • ethics • feudalism • Fukuzawa Yukichi • George Henry Lewes • German Historical School • Han school • Hirata Atsutane • Ideology • Ii Naosuke • Ishida Baigan • Itagaki Taisuke • Iwakura Mission • Iwakura Tomomi • Iyo Province • Japanese name • Japanese philosophy • Japanese Studies • John Stuart Mill • Joseph R. Levenson • Kaneko • Kokugaku • Kokushi (official) • kokutai • Kumazawa Banzan • Lecture • Leveling (philosophy) • Matthew C. Perry • Meiji Constitution • Meiji oligarchy • Meiji period • meiji restoration • Meirokusha • Mencius • modern history • Modernity • modern studies • Mokuroku • Morality • Mori Arinori • Nakamura Masanao • Neo-Confucianism • New Army • New Nation (United States) • new society • Nichiren • Nishi Amane • Nishi Honganji • Nominalism • nomura • oda nobunaga • of education • Philosophy • Politics • Positivism • Postwar Japan • Pragmatism • Radicalism (historical) • Rangaku • Religion • restoration movement • Sakamoto Ryoma • school of thought • Secularization • Shimane Prefecture • Shishi (organization) • Shogun • State Shinto • Superiority (short story) • Taikun • tokugawa ieyasu • Tokugawa Mitsukuni • Tokugawa Nariaki • tokugawa shogunate • Tokugawa Yoshinobu • toshio • Tsuda Mamichi • Utilitarianism • Western Culture • Western Philosophy • Western thought • Writing • Yamagata Aritomo • Yamauchi • Young Samurai • Zenki
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6942-0 / 1400869420
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6942-8 / 9781400869428