Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History

CONTENTS\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: Uneven Moments from Japan’s Modern History\nPART I. IMMINENT CRITICISM AND ACADEMIC DISCOURSE: AREA STUDIES\n1. Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of “Globalism”\n2. “Memories of Underdevelopment” After Area Studies\nPART II. CULTURAL FORM AND POLITICAL WITHDRAWAL: TOKUGAWA JAPAN\n3. Cultural Politics in Tokugawa Japan\n4. Late Tokugawa Culture and Thought\nPART III. PATHWAYS TO MODERNITY’S PRESENT AND THE ENDURING EVERYDAY\n5. Shadowing History: National Narratives and the Persistence of the Everyday\n6. Overcome by Modernity: Fantasizing Everyday Life and the Discourse on the Social in Interwar Japan\n7. Time, Everydayness, and the Specter of Fascism: Tosaka Jun and Philosophy’s New Vocation\n8. Allegorizing History: Marxism, Hani Gorō, and the Demands of the Present\n9. Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History\n10. Reflections from Fukushima: History, Memory, and the Crisis of Contemporaneity\nPART IV. IDEOLOGICAL FORMATION: COLLUDING WITH THE PAST\n11. Visible Discourses/Invisible Ideologies\n12. The Presence of Archaism/The Persistence of Fascism\nPreviously Published Materials\nIndex