Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science

ISBN-13: 9780415111317 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 368 str.

David Williams; David Williams

Opis

The central argument of Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science is that Eurocentric blindness is not a moral but a scientific failing. In this wide-ranging critique of Western social science, Anglo-American philosophy and French theory, Williams works on the premise that Japan is the most important political system of our time. He explains why social scientists have been so keen to ignore or denigrate Japan's achievements. If social science is to meet the needs of the Pacific Century', it requires a sustained act of intellectual demolition and subsequent renewal.

Spis treści

Japanese conventions and English usage Part I Japan: the splendour of its prime 1 Japan and the European political canon 2 Where are the masters? Part II Japanese greatness and the European inheritance Science 3 Positivism 4 Empiricism 5 Orientalism Words 6 Languages 7 Criticism 8 Readers 9 Philosophies 10 Thinkers 11 Classics Part III On classic ground 12 Japan and the end of political scientific marginality: the argument restated

O autorze

David Williams is Senior Research Fellow in Japanese Politics at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. He is the author of Japan: Beyond the End of History (Routledge 1994).