History's Disquiet

Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life

By: Harry Harootunian

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Paperback | 8 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Acclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoretical, that compartmentalize the world around us. In one of the first works to explore on equal footing European and Japanese conceptions of modernity--as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun--Harootunian seeks to expose the problematic nature of scholarly categories. In doing so, History's Disquiet presents intellectual genealogies of such orthodox notions as "field" and "modernity" and other concepts intellectuals in the East and West have used to understand the changing world around them. Contrasting reflections on everyday life in Japan and Europe, Harootunian shows how responses to capitalist society were expressed in similar ways: social critics in both regions alleged a broad sense of alienation, particularly among the middle class. However, he also points out that Japanese critics viewed modernity as a condition in which Japan--without the lengthy period of capitalist modernization that characterized Europe and America--was either "catching up" with those regions or "copying" them.

As elegantly written as it is controversial, this book is both an invitation for rethinking intellectual boundaries and an invigorating affirmation that such boundaries can indeed be broken down.

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"An incisive critique of the politics of knowledge production regarding 'Japan,' 'Asia,' and beyond." - Rey Chow, author of Primitive Passions

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History Asian History Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Society & Culture Cultural Studies History of Ideas General & World History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: The Unavoidable "Actuality" of Everyday Life	p. 1
Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of "Globalism"	p. 25
The "Mystery of the Everyday": Everydayness in History	p. 59
"Dialectical Optics": History in Everydayness	p. 111
Notes	p. 159
Index	p. 169
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