Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought,
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0691621357
ISBN13:9780691621357
Release Date:March 2015
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.82 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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