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Takeuchi Yoshimi - Displacing the West (Paperback)
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Takeuchi Yoshimi - Displacing the West (Paperback)
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This work focuses on the writings of the postwar Japanese thinker
and sinologist Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977). It presents itself
less as an intellectual biography than as a series of explorative
readings of his work. These readings attempt to trace out the
various problematics with which Takeuchi was engaged throughout his
career, with particular emphasis given to the notions of modernity,
subjectivity and alterity. In all cases, an effort was made to do
justice to the difficult notion of "resistance," for which Takeuchi
is perhaps most well-known. We have argued that what Takeuchi
refers to as "Oriental resistance" against the West is in fact
reflective of a more comprehensive notion of resistance, one that
may be understood along the lines of the ultimate impossibility of
conceptual knowledge. This impossibility is for Takeuchi
essentially linked to a privileging of historical singularity over
subjective identity, and with this a shift in emphasis from
activity to passivity. We have sought throughout the work to draw
out the complexity of Takeuchi's thought, and in this way bring
forth not only the important possibilities that inhere within it
but as well what we consider to be at times its insufficiencies, or
limits.
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