Contemporary Japanese Thought

Richard F. Calichman is assistant professor of Japanese studies at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is the author of Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West and the editor and translator of What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi (Columbia). He lives in New York City.

• Acknowledgments Introduction, by Richard F. Calichman 1. Ehara Yumiko The Politics of Teasing A Feminist View of Maruyama Masao's Modernity 2. Kang Sangjung The Imaginary Geography of a Nation and Denationalized Narrative The Discovery of the "Orient" and Orientalism 3. Karatani Ko Jin Overcoming Modernity Soseki's Diversity: On Kokoro 4. Nishitani Osamu The Wonderland of "Immortality" 5. Naoki Sakai Two Negations: The Fear of Being Excluded and the Logic of Self-Esteem 6. Takahashi Tetsuya Japanese Neo-Nationalism: A Critique of Kato Norihiro's "After the Defeat" Discourse From the Hinomaru and Kimigayo to the Symbolic Emperor System 7. Ueno Chizuko In the Feminine Guise: A Trap of Reverse Orientalism Collapse of "Japanese Mothers" 8. Ukai Satoshi Colonialism and Modernity Reflections Beyond the Flag: Why Is the Hinomaru Flag "Auspicious/Foolish"? Glossary List of Contributors Index of Names

An admirable, engrossing, and valuable collection. -- Andrew Barshay International Journal of Asian Studies Important for making accessible to Western audiences not only the existence but the richness of the theoretical debates taking place within a non-Western society. -- Chikako Endo, H-Net The book deserves to be widely read beyond (as well as within) the bounds of Japanese studies -- Tessa Morris-Suzuki Japanese Studies [Calichman has] rendered us a tremendous service. This collection makes a powerful first step toward filling a definite need. -- Michael K. Bourdaghs Philosophy East & West