Political Thought and Japan's New Left Movements
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While the intellectual history of the New Left is dominated by scholarship on western thinkers, Japan's radical theorists developed equally groundbreaking ideas, producing one of the most intense periods of political thought in the global twentieth century. Political Thought and Japan's New Left Movements finally redresses this imbalance by assembling the first comprehensive collection of authoritative essays on the Japanese intellectuals who, by critically rethinking the Marxian legacy, defined their era. Highlighting the connections between these key figures, their historical circumstances and their biographies, this book provides concise, accessible overviews of the theoretical approaches that shaped and were shaped by Japan's 1960s New Left movements, while also evaluating the development and impact of these intellectual contributions. In doing so, it demonstrates the distinctiveness and significance of Japanese left-wing thought, providing an invaluable resource for students of twentieth-century radical politics.
Christopher Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The United Red Army on Screen (2015) and The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan (2024), as well as numerous journal articles and translations on the pre and postwar Japanese student movement. Ferran de Vargas is UKRI Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, having previously been Juan de la Cierva Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellow at the Open University of Catalonia. He is the author of a book on the history of the Japanese New Left, Izquierda y revolución. Una historia política del Japón de posguerra (1945-1972) (2020) and of articles in academic journals such as positions: asia critique, Japan Forum, and Modern Asian Studies.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: The Japanese New Left and the Politics of Rupture, Ferran de Vargas and Christopher Perkins, both University of Edinburgh, UK
Section 1. Exploring the Limits of Marxism
1. Umemoto Katsumi, the New Left and the Critique of Civil Society, Viren Murthy, UW-Madison, USA
2. Kakehashi Akihide: From the Philosophy of Nature to The Philosophy of Capital, Ferran de Vargas, University of Edinburgh, UK
3. Legitimacy and Leeway: The Resonance of Uno Kozo’s Thought in Japan’s New Left, Mario Malo, Universidad de Granada, Spain
4. Hani Goro and the New Left, Takemasa Ando, Musashi University, Japan
5. Inoue Kiyoshi and the Post-Anpo Student Movement, Curtis Anderson Gayle, Waseda University, Japan
Section 2. Developing a New Marxism
6. Kuroda Kan’ichi’s Anti-JCP Marxism: Theorizing The “True” Vanguard Party, Ferran de Vargas, University of Edinburgh, UK
7. Hiromatsu Wataru: Theory and Practice of Relationalism and the Critique of Reification, Raji Steineck, University of Zurich, Switzerland
8. Takita Osamu: A Rogue Reconsidered, William Andrews, independent scholar Tokyo, Japan
9. Ota Ryu: the “Black Mirror” of the Japanese New Left, Till Knaudt, Kyoto University, Japan
Section 3. Moving Beyond Marxism
10. Yoshimoto Taka’aki, Radical Intellectual of the Multitude, Manuel Yang, Japan Women?s University, Japan
11. Tanigawa Gan: Poetic Metaphor as Political Action, Wesley Sasaki-Uemura, University of Utah, USA
12. Tokoro Mitsuko: love, revolution, and political activism in the long 1960s, Anna-Viktoria Vittinghoff, University of Sheffield, UK
13. Tanaka Mitsu and ribu: liberation begins with me, Yanagiwara Megumi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, translated by Christopher Perkins, University of Edinburgh, UK
14. Nagasaki Hiroshi: Liberating Rebellion, Christopher Perkins, University of Edinburgh, UK
15. Karatani Kojin: learning from defeat and catastrophe, Carl Cassegård, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-53468-4 / 1350534684 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-53468-1 / 9781350534681 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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