A nineteenth-century aristocrat, Nishi Amane (1829-1897) was one of
the first Japanese to assert the supremacy of Western culture. He
was sent by his government to Leiden to study the European social
sciences; on his return to Japan shortly before the climactic Meiji
Restoration of 1868 he introduced and adapted European
utilitarianism and positivism to his country's intellectual world.
To modernize, Nishi held, Japan must cast off the bonds of the
Confucian world-view in order to adopt new principles of empirical
scholarly investigation and new standards of self-improvement.
Though a Confucian by upbringing, Nishi became thoroughly committed
to Western intellectual values in his programs for the new Japanese
society. In his roles of teacher, writer, and government
administrator, he was influential at one of the most critical times
in Japan's history. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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