H.D. Harootunian has provided a new preface for the paperback edition of his classic study "Toward Restoration", the first intellectual history of the Meiji Restoration in English.[...]
"Postmodernism and Japan" is a coherent yet diverse study of the dynamics of postmodernism - described by Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze, and Guatarri - from the often startling perspective of a society bent on transforming itself into the image of Western "enlightened" wealth and power. Essays by Ar[...]