Defending Japan's Pacific War

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Defending Japan's Pacific War

The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power

Asian history Second World War East Asian and Indian philosophy

Author: David Williams

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 28th October 2004

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 332 Kb

ISBN: 9781134350667


Overview

This book puts forward a revisionist view of Japanese wartime thinking. It seeks to explore why Japanese intellectuals, historians and philosophers of the time insisted that Japan had to turn its back on the West and attack the United States and the British Empire.

Analysis of Kyoto School

Based on a close reading of the texts written by members of the highly influential Kyoto School, and revisiting the dialogue between the Kyoto School and the German philosopher Heidegger, it argues that the work of Kyoto thinkers cannot be dismissed as mere fascist propaganda, and that this work, in which race is a key theme, constitutes a reasoned case for a post-White world.

Relevance Today

The author also argues that this theme is increasingly relevant at present, as demographic changes are set to transform the political and social landscape of North America and Western Europe over the next fifty years.

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