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Title Tosaka Jun : a critical reader / edited by Ken C. Kawashima, Fabian Schäfer and Robert Stolz.

Publication Info. Ithaca, New York : East Asia Program, Cornell University, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages).
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Series Cornell East Asia series, 1050-2955 ; number 168
Cornell East Asia series ; 168.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Principle of everydayness and historical time / trans. Robert Stolz -- On space (introduction and conclusion) / trans. Robert Stolz -- Academy and journalism / trans. Chris Kai-Jones -- Laughter, comedy, and humor / trans. Christopher Ahn -- Fate of Japanism : from fascism to emperorism / trans. John Person -- Theory of the intelligentsia and theory of technology : proposing to reexamine the theory of technology / trans. Takeshi Kimoto -- Liberalist philosophy and materialism : against the two types of liberalist philosophy / trans. John Person -- Police function / trans. Ken C. Kawashima -- Film as a reproduction of the present : custom and the masses / trans. Gavin Walker -- Film art and film : toward the function of abstraction / trans. Gavin Walker -- Here, now : everyday space as cultural critique / Robert Stolz -- Actuality of journalism and the possibility of everyday critique / Fabian Schäfer -- Dialectic of laughter and Tosaka's critical theory / Katsuya Hirano -- Immaterial technique and mass intelligence : Tosaka Jun on technology / Takeshi Kimoto -- Filmic materiality and historical materialism : Tosaka Kun and the prosthetics of sensation / Gavin Walker -- Notes toward a critical analysis of chronic recession and ideology : Tosaka Jun on the police function / Ken C. Kawashima -- Multitude and the Holy Family : empire, fascism, and the war machine / Katsuhiko Endo.
Summary Tosaka Jun (1900-1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique, urgent, and important critics of capitalism, Japanese imperialism, the emperor system, 'Japanism', and everyday life in imperial Japan. A philosopher trained at Kyoto University, Tosaka made major contributions to the advancement of Marxism and historical materialism in Japan, most notably as the central figure at the Yuibutsuron kenkyūkai. His writings reveal a true renaissance thinker, moving from the history and philosophy of science to profound and brilliant studies of everyday life, media, fascism, militarism, and what Tosaka called 'The Japanese ideology'. His Marxist philosophy especially sought to move beyond a mechanistic Marxism, and to criticize the diverse ways in which cultural productions of the nation, the empire, and 'Japan', were deeply implicated in capitalist exploitation, imperialist domination in Asia, and fascist war.
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Subject Tosaka, Jun, 1900-1945.
Tosaka, Jun, 1900-1945.
Philosophy, Japanese.
Philosophy, Japanese.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Added Author Stolz, Robert (Robert P.), editor.
Schäfer, Fabian, editor.
Kawashima, Ken C. (Ken Chester), editor.
Tosaka, Jun, 1900-1945, author.
Other Form: Print version: Tosaka Jun. Ithaca, New York : East Asia Program, Cornell University, [2013] (DLC) 2013943876
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