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Book SynopsisExamines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture based on fantasy and desire.
Trade Review"Harootunian is one of the leading intellectual historians of Japan... This is clearly an extremely erudite work ... by an author deeply familiar with his topic."--David G. Egler, History "A truly significant book, perhaps even more important than Harootunian's earlier publications... Overcome by Modernity is without a doubt a significant and courageous book."--Sepp Linhart, Monumenta Nipponica "[A] powerful study... Harootunian rejects the idea that fascism has had its epoch and is now only a historical problem."--Andrew Barshay, Journal of Japanese Studies "A terrifically insightful and poignant evocation of Japan's tortured attempt to come to grips with the modern world."--Jeffrey E. Hanes, American Historical Review
Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xxxiii Chapter 1 The Fantasy of Modern Life 3 Chapter 2 Overcoming Modernity 34 Chapter 3 Perceiving the Present 95 Chapter 4 The Persistence of Cultural Memory 202 Chapter 5 The Communal Body 293 Chapter 6 History's Actuality 358 Abbreviations 415 Notes 417 Index 433
