Harry Harootunian is Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago, professor emeritus of East Asian studies at New York University, and adjunct senior research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. His books include History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life (Columbia, 2000) and Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism (Columbia, 2015).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Uneven Moments from Japan’s Modern HistoryPart I. Imminent Criticism and Academic Discourse: Area Studies1. Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of “Globalism”2. “Memories of Underdevelopment” After Area StudiesPart II. Cultural Form and Political Withdrawal: Tokugawa Japan3. Cultural Politics in Tokugawa Japan4. Late Tokugawa Culture and ThoughtPart III. Pathways to Modernity’s Present and the Enduring Everyday5. Shadowing History: National Narratives and the Persistence of the Everyday6. Overcome by Modernity: Fantasizing Everyday Life and the Discourse on the Social in Interwar Japan7. Time, Everydayness, and the Specter of Fascism: Tosaka Jun and Philosophy’s New Vocation8. Allegorizing History: Marxism, Hani Gorō, and the Demands of the Present9. Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History10. Reflections from Fukushima: History, Memory, and the Crisis of ContemporaneityPart IV. Ideological Formation: Colluding with the Past11. Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies12. The Presence of Archaism/The Persistence of FascismPreviously Published MaterialsIndex

Harry Harootunian is both a pioneer American scholar of modern Japanese history and a probing critic of mainstream analyses of Japan's turbulent past. This book is a brilliant summing up of his prolific career.

Harry Harootunian is Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago, professor emeritus of East Asian studies at New York University, and adjunct senior research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. His books include History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life (Columbia, 2000) and Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism (Columbia, 2015).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Uneven Moments from Japan’s Modern HistoryPart I. Imminent Criticism and Academic Discourse: Area Studies1. Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of “Globalism”2. “Memories of Underdevelopment” After Area StudiesPart II. Cultural Form and Political Withdrawal: Tokugawa Japan3. Cultural Politics in Tokugawa Japan4. Late Tokugawa Culture and ThoughtPart III. Pathways to Modernity’s Present and the Enduring Everyday5. Shadowing History: National Narratives and the Persistence of the Everyday6. Overcome by Modernity: Fantasizing Everyday Life and the Discourse on the Social in Interwar Japan7. Time, Everydayness, and the Specter of Fascism: Tosaka Jun and Philosophy’s New Vocation8. Allegorizing History: Marxism, Hani Gorō, and the Demands of the Present9. Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History10. Reflections from Fukushima: History, Memory, and the Crisis of ContemporaneityPart IV. Ideological Formation: Colluding with the Past11. Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies12. The Presence of Archaism/The Persistence of FascismPreviously Published MaterialsIndex

Harry Harootunian is both a pioneer American scholar of modern Japanese history and a probing critic of mainstream analyses of Japan's turbulent past. This book is a brilliant summing up of his prolific career.

Harry Harootunian is Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago, professor emeritus of East Asian studies at New York University, and adjunct senior research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. His books include History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life (Columbia, 2000) and Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism (Columbia, 2015).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Uneven Moments from Japan’s Modern HistoryPart I. Imminent Criticism and Academic Discourse: Area Studies1. Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of “Globalism”2. “Memories of Underdevelopment” After Area StudiesPart II. Cultural Form and Political Withdrawal: Tokugawa Japan3. Cultural Politics in Tokugawa Japan4. Late Tokugawa Culture and ThoughtPart III. Pathways to Modernity’s Present and the Enduring Everyday5. Shadowing History: National Narratives and the Persistence of the Everyday6. Overcome by Modernity: Fantasizing Everyday Life and the Discourse on the Social in Interwar Japan7. Time, Everydayness, and the Specter of Fascism: Tosaka Jun and Philosophy’s New Vocation8. Allegorizing History: Marxism, Hani Gorō, and the Demands of the Present9. Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History10. Reflections from Fukushima: History, Memory, and the Crisis of ContemporaneityPart IV. Ideological Formation: Colluding with the Past11. Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies12. The Presence of Archaism/The Persistence of FascismPreviously Published MaterialsIndex

Harry Harootunian is both a pioneer American scholar of modern Japanese history and a probing critic of mainstream analyses of Japan's turbulent past. This book is a brilliant summing up of his prolific career.