Overcoming modernity
Subtitle: cultural identity in wartime Japan
By: Richard F. Calichman, editor and translator.
Contributors: Calichman, Richard.
Series: Weatherhead books on Asia
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780231143967; 9780231143974
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Japan; Japan -- Civilization -- 1926-1945 -- Philosophy; Japan -- Civilization -- Western influences
Work titles: Kindai no chōkoku. English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translation of articles under the title of Kindai no chōkoku, originally appeared in Bungakukai, Setp. and Oct. 1942 issues.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Overcoming modernity": the dissolution of cultural identity; title: A note on contemporary spirit / Kamei Katsuichirō; title: My views on "overcoming modernity" / Nishitani Keiji; title: From our standpoint: reflections on overcoming modernity / Moroi Saburō; title: The theological grounds of overcoming modernity: how can modern man find God? / Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko; title: The heart of imperial loyalty / Hayashi Fusao; title: The course of overcoming modernity / Shimomura Toratarō; title: What is to be destroyed? / Tsumura Hideo; title: A brief account / Miyoshi Tatsuji; title: On the overcoming of science / Kikuchi Seishi; title: Doubts regarding "modernity" / Nakamura Mitsuo; title: A note on "overcoming modernity" / Suzuki Shigetaka; title: Concluding remarks to "overcoming modernity" / Kawakami Tetsutarō; title: Roundtable discussion: day one; title: Roundtable discussion: day two.