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050 00 $aDS822.5$b.J44 1995
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245 00 $aJapanese encounters with postmodernity /$cjointly edited by Johann Arnason and Yoshio Sugimoto.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bKegan Paul International ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$bDistributed by Columbia University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9509
300 $axii, 303 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aJapanese studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 270-294) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction /$rJohann P. Arnason and Yoshio Sugimoto --$g2.$tTheory: Modernity, Postmodernity and the Japanese Experience /$rJohann P. Arnason --$g3.$tWork: Postmodernism or Ultramodernism: The Japanese Dilemma at Work /$rRoss Mouer --$g4.$tIndustrial Relations: Is Japanese Capitalism Post-Fordist? /$rTetsuro Kato and Rob Steven --$g5.$tGender: Equal Opportunity and Gender Identity: Feminist Encounters with Modernity and Postmodernity in Japan /$rVera Mackie --$g6.$tScience: Fuzzy Logic: Science, Technology and Postmodernity in Japan /$rTessa Morris-Suzuki --$g7.$tLiterature: Questioning Modernism and Postmodernism in Japanese Literature /$rToshiko Ellis --$g8.$tFine Arts: The Conditions for Postmodernity in Japanese Art of the 1980s /$rJohn Clark --$g9.$tCommunication: Modernisation and Postmodernisation of the Japanese System of Communication /$rJ. V. Neustupny --
505 80 $g10.$tSocial Stratification: Changing Status Perceptions in Contemporary Japan: A Debate on Modernity and Postmodernity /$rKenji Kosaka --$g11.$tPolitics: The Japanese Postmodern Political Condition /$rPaul Harrison --$g12.$tJapanese Studies: Nihonjinron at the End of the Twentieth Century: A Multicultural Perspective /$rRoss Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto.
520 $aThis is the first systematic study of the sociological debate on postmodernity in the Japanese context. The volume consists of a collection of twelve papers that explore the idea of postmodernity primarily from sociological perspectives, covering a wide range of domains including work, feminism, communication, science and technology, social stratification, fine arts and literature. The contributors come from diverse disciplines ranging from sociology and history to political science and linguistics.
520 8 $aThey include advocates of postmodern theories and postmodernist analyses of Japanese society, as well as critics who argue that a suitably revised theory of modernity is still the most adequate framework for comparing Japan and the West. Others take the view that an intermediate position might be more productive and that a qualified or provisional version of postmodernism can throw new light on issues traditionally neglected by social theory.
520 8 $a. While the postmodernity debate has been carried out chiefly in the context of European and American experiences, this book paves the way for the postmodernity question to be explored in the non-western but highly industrialised setting of Japan, and brings forward a series of open-ended questions about the bias in the debate. Written by academics based in universities in Japan and Australia, the volume itself is postmodern in its internal diversity and multicultural orientation.
651 0 $aJapan$xCivilization$y1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069378
700 1 $aÁrnason, Jóhann Páll,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93016742
700 1 $aSugimoto, Yoshio,$d1940-
830 0 $aJapanese studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86731043
852 00 $beal$hDS822.5$i.J44 1995