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Clammer, John

 
9780415847049: Difference and Modernity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0415847044 ISBN 13 : 9780415847049
Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

The question of 'postmodernity' that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged capitalist-industrialist economy, poses such fundamental questions to social theory. Is Japan in fact 'unique' and as such is it a society which escapes the net of conventional sociological abstractions? The book questions how special Japanese society really is, the limitations of Western social theory in grasping the fullness of this dynamic and a complex Asian society, and inquires as to how Japan in turn may speak to social theory and deepen and broaden the principles on which social theory attempts to explore and categorize the social and cultural worlds.

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John Clammer

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415847044
ISBN 13 
9780415847049
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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Personne responsable
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