The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism

Introduction, by Richard Stolz
Acknowledgments
Preface (1935)
Preface to the Revised Edition (1936)
Supplemental Preface to the Revised Edition (1937)
Part I: Foundation for a Critique of Japanism
1. Problems in Contemporary Japanese Thought: Japanism, Liberalism, Materialism
2. Foundation for a Critique of Japanism: A Critique of Philological Philosophy
3. An Analysis of “Common Sense”: Toward a Resolution of Two Contradictions in Social Common Sense
4. On Enlightenment: The Meaning and Necessity of Enlightenment Today
5. A Scientific Critique of Culture: An Outline for a Critique of National Purification
6. Japanist Ideology: Japanese Spiritualism, Japanese Agrarian Fundamentalism, Japanese Pan-Asianism
7. Japanese Ethics and Anthropology: An Analysis of the Social Meaning of Watsuji Tetsurō’s Ethics
8. An Analysis of the Restorationist Phenomenon: On the Famialism Analogy
9. The Essence of Cultural Control: An Analysis of Various Aspects of Cultural Control in Contemporary Japan
10. The Fate of Japanism: From Fascism to the Ideology of the Imperial Way
Part II: Foundation for a Critique of Liberalism
11. Modern Idealism in Disguise: Foundation for a Critique of “Hermeneutic Philosophy”
12. “The Logic of Nothingness,” Is It a Logic?: On Nishida’s Philosophical Method
13. The Sorcery of “Totality”: Takahashi Satomi’s Philosophical Method
14. Literature and Philosophy in an Age of Reaction: On the Delusions of “Literaturism”
15. The Essence of “Literary Liberalism”: The Progressive and Reactionary Nature of “Liberals”
16. The Consciousness and Class Theory of the Intelligentsia: Against the So-Called “Class Theory of Intelligence”
17. Doubts on the Theory of the Intelligentsia: Is the Current Problematization of the Intelligentsia Mistaken?
18. The Theory of the Intelligentsia and the Theory of Technology: A Reexamination of the Theory of Technology
19. Liberal Philosophy and Materialism: Against Two Types of Liberal Philosophy
20. Contemporary Japanese Thought: The Superiority of Materialism for the Question of Thought
Part III: The Masses and Socialism in an “Age of Reaction”
21. The Current Meaning of “Progressive” and “Reactionary”
22. A Reconsideration of the Masses
23. Liberalism, Fascism, Socialism
Afterword: A Japanese Ideology for Our Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index