One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan 9780824855369
After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of demo
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Science of Thought and Democracy
Chapter One. The Negative Origins of Postwar Thought
Chapter Two. Communicating Democracy: American Social Science and the Enlightenment of the Intellectual
Chapter Three. The Philosophy of Ordinary People
Chapter Four. Writing a Revolution: Life-Writing, the Circle Movement, and the People’s Republic of China
Chapter Five. The Age of Conversion
Conclusion. The 1960 U.S.-Japan Security Treaty Protests and Their Aftermath
Notes
Bibliography
Index
