Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science
by David Williams
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Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science Summary
| The historical experience of Japan in the period since it embarked on 'modernization' illuminates the limitations of Western social theory. |
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| The historical experience of Japan in the period since it embarked on 'modernization' illuminates the limitations of Western social theory. |
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| "Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science" argues that Eurocentric blindness is a scientific failing, not a moral one. In a way true of no other political system, Japan's greatness has the potential to enliven and reform almost all the main branches of Western Political Science. David Williams criticizes Western social science, Anglo-American Philosophy and French Theory and explains why mainstream economists, historians of political thought and postculturalists have ignored Japan's modern achievements. Williams demonstrates why the renewal of social science and the nurturing of a "a philosophy of the Pacific Century" requires a sustained act of intellectual demolition |
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