Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West

by Richard F. Calichman

This work focuses on the writings of the postwar Japanese thinker and sinologist Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977). It presents itself less as an intellectual biography than as a series of explorative readings of his work. These readings attempt to trace out the various problematics with which Takeuchi was engaged throughout his career, with particular emphasis given to the notions of modernity, subjectivity and alterity. In all cases, an effort was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885445202
• ISBN13: 9781885445209
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cornell Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher