Description: A comprehensive exploration of the thinkers that shaped, and were shaped by, Japan's New Left movement.
Brief description: Christopher Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of The United Red Army on Screen (2015) and The Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle for Order in Postwar Japan (2024), as well as numerous journal articles and translations on the pre and postwar Japanese student movement.
Review Quotes:
"An indispensable volume on Japan's New Left. It reveals how intellectuals creatively reinterpreted Marxism through locally specific contexts of student movements, subjectivity, war responsibility, and US hegemony. Through fifteen thinkers, it affirms Japan's New Left as a major theoretical endevour in its own right, not merely derivative of Western thought." --Rumi Sakamto, Senior Lecturer, Unviersity of Auckland, New Zealand
"This volume brings timely attention to a broad range of thinkers connected to New Left movements in Japan. Through focused analyses, the fifteen contributors illuminate their distinct positions within vibrant domestic debates, in turn allowing English-language audiences to grasp the contributions of Japanese theoreticians, activists, and authors within the global moment of the 1960s." --William Marotti, Professor in the Department of History, UCLA, USA