The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance by David Williams

The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance by David Williams

This is a complete translation, together with a substantial commentary and introduction, of The Standpoint of World History and Japan, an important work by leading philosophers of the Kyoto School, long regarded as one of the most notorious fascist texts produced in Japan during the Pacific War.

‘This deeply researched and provocative study highlights the key significance of Confucian political ideas for Kyoto School thinkers while demonstrating the futility of approaching their philosophy from the standpoint of ‘moral history’ – Graham Parkes, University College Cork, Ireland

David Williams is a leading thinker on the Orient and a preeminent expert on the wartime Kyoto School. He is the author of Japan: Beyond the End of History (1994), Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science (1996) and Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto Philosophers and Post-white Power (2004) and The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy (2006).

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ISBN 13	9780415476461
ISBN 10	0415476461
Title	The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance
Author	David Williams
Series	Routledge Studies In The Modern History Of Asia
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2014-04-08
Number of pages	450
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