The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions

This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of "development" or "rationalization" have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Andrew E. Barshay argues that Japan, together with Germany and pre—revolutionary Russia, represented forms of developmental alienation from the Atlantic Rim symptomatic of late—emerging empires. Neither members nor colonie...