Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan / / Masao Maruyama.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Maruyama, Masao,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hane, Mikiso.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 773
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)

A comprehensive study of changing political thought during the Tokugawa period, the book traces the philosophical roots of Japanese modernization. Professor Maruyama describes the role of Sorai Confucianism and Norinaga Shintoism in breaking the stagnant confines of Chu Hsi Confucianism, the underlying political philosophy of the Tokugawa feudal state. He shows how the new schools of thought created an intellectual climate in which the ideas and practices of modernization could thrive.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH EDITION -- Part I. The Sorai School: Its Role in the Disintegration of Tokugawa Confucianism and Its Impact on National Learning -- I. Introduction: The Formation of Tokugawa Confucianism -- II. The Chu Hsi Mode of Thought and Its Dissolution -- III. The Unique Characteristics of the Sorai School -- IV. The Sorai School's Relationship to National Learning, Especially to the Norinaga School -- V. Conclusion -- Part II. Nature and Invention in Tokugawa Political Thought: Contrasting Institutional Views -- I. The Problem -- II. Chu Hsi Philosophy and the Idea of Natural Order -- III. The Sorai School Revolution -- IV. The Historical Significance of the Transition from Nature to Invention -- V. The Logic of Invention as Developed by Shoefa and Norinaga -- VI. Further Developments and Stagnation in the Bakumatsu Period -- Part III. The Premodern Formation of Nationalism -- I. Introduction: The Nation and Nationalism -- II. National Consciousness under Tokugawa Feudalism -- III. Varieties of Premodern Nationalism -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index