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Cantankerous Essays - Musings of a Disillusioned Japanophile (Hardcover, New edition)
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Cantankerous Essays - Musings of a Disillusioned Japanophile (Hardcover, New edition)
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Prompted by increasing evidence of the world's shift to the right,
not least among the industrialised nations, here is a cri de coeur
from almost the last survivor from the post-war crop of European
sociologists and scholars of Japanese Studies. After six decades
following developments in Japanese society, economy and culture and
as a well-known 'leftie' - he describes the evolution of his
cognitive and evaluative/emotional perceptions of Japan, and
explains why he can no longer be described as a Japanophile. To
which are added essays on more general issues of the day, such as
events in the Ukraine, Iran and Israel. The key words are indeed
'cantankerous' (because he is greatly exercised by the
'conspiracies of silence' embedded in the culture of modern
political and public life); 'musings' (because this is not so much
a single-focus monograph, rather a collection of spontaneous, but
deeply-considered reflections on matters of the moment) and
'disillusioned' (both by Japan's reversion to chauvinistic
nationalism, and because, as a youth, he hoped for and expected an
enhancement of the role of reason in international affairs.) This
will be of special interest to all who know or have accessed the
author's vast literary output relating to Japan; but it also has
considerably wider relevance among those who are in any way
connected with contemporary society, politics and economics and
wish to confront the 'conspiracy of silence' within our
interdependent world.
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