Archaism and Actuality

Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary

Harry Harootunian (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2036-3 (ISBN)

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In Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism. He applies his theorization of subsumption to examine how capitalism integrates and redirects preexisting social, cultural, and economic practices to guide the present. This subsumption leads to a global condition in which states and societies all exist within different stages and manifestations of capitalism. Drawing on Japanese philosophers Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun, Marxist theory, and Gramsci’s notion of passive revolution, Harootunian shows how the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and its program dedicated to transforming the country into a modern society exemplified a unique path to capitalism. Japan’s capitalist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rise as an imperial power, and subsequent transition to fascism signal a wholly distinct trajectory into modernity that forecloses any notion of a pure or universal development of capitalism. With Archaism and Actuality, Harootunian offers both a retheorization of capitalist development and a reinterpretation of epochal moments in modern Japanese history.

Harry Harootunian is Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago and Associate Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, most recently, The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives, also published by Duke University Press.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xix
1. In the Zone of Occult Instability 1
2. Restoration 36
3. Capitalism and Fascism 99
4. Actuality and the Archaic Mode of Cognition 145
5. Epilogue: Déjà Vu 223
Notes 245
Bibliography 261
Index 269

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Theory in Forms
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4780-2036-9 / 1478020369
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2036-3 / 9781478020363
Zustand	Neuware