Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan

Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan
Author: Masao Maruyama
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1400847893

A comprehensive study of changing political thought during the Tokugawa period, the book traces the philosophical roots of Japanese modernization. Professor Maruyama describes the role of Sorai Confucianism and Norinaga Shintoism in breaking the stagnant confines of Chu Hsi Confucianism, the underlying political philosophy of the Tokugawa feudal state. He shows how the new schools of thought created an intellectual climate in which the ideas and practices of modernization could thrive. Originally published in 1975. 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.

Nihon Seiji Shisō Shi Kenkyū

Nihon Seiji Shisō Shi Kenkyū
Author: Masao Maruyama
Publisher: [Princeton, N. J.] : Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 1974
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780691075662

A comprehensive study of changing political thought during the Tokugawa period, the book traces the philosophical roots of Japanese modernization. Professor Maruyama describes the role of Sorai Confucianism and Norinaga Shintoism in breaking the stagnant confines of Chu Hsi Confucianism, the underlying political philosophy of the Tokugawa feudal state. He shows how the new schools of thought created an intellectual climate in which the ideas and practices of modernization could thrive. Originally published in 1989. 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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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.

Imagining Japan

Imagining Japan
Author: Robert Neelly Bellah
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520235205

"Bellah is a sociologist with a grand vision of history, deeply concerned with the twists and turns of religious values, weaving pre-modern religious thinking into the debates of modernization and modernity. He takes a reflective turn with Imagining Japan, evidencing his profound concern with religious evolution."--Tetsuo Najita, University of Chicago "One of the most original attempts to understand some of the psychological and symbolic roots of the central problems in Japanese history. Bellah masterfully brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japan, making a very important contribution to Japanese Studies."--S. N. Eisenstadt, Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University and author of Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View

A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan

A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan
Author: Rebekah Clements
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316272680

The translation of texts has played a formative role in Japan's history of cultural exchange as well as the development of literature, and indigenous legal and religious systems. This is the first book of its kind, however, to offer a comprehensive survey of the role of translation in Japan during the Tokugawa period, 1600–1868. By examining a wide range of translations into Japanese from Chinese, Dutch and other European texts, as well as the translation of classical Japanese into the vernacular, Rebekah Clements reveals the circles of intellectual and political exchange that existed in early modern Japan, arguing that, contrary to popular belief, Japan's 'translation' culture did not begin in the Meiji period. Examining the 'crisis translation' of military texts in response to international threats to security in the nineteenth century, Clements also offers fresh insights into the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Author: Edward Craig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 920
Release: 1998
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415187121

Volume seven of a ten volume set which provides full and detailed coverage of all aspects of philosophy, including information on how philosophy is practiced in different countries, who the most influential philosophers were, and what the basic concepts are.

Toward Restoration

Toward Restoration
Author: H. D. Harootunian
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520343085

H.D. Harootunian has provided a new preface for the paperback edition of his classic study Toward Restoration, the first intellectual history of the Meiji Restoration in English.