'Modernity' and the claims of untimeliness

Postcolonial Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 367-382

  Harootunian, Harry ^a  

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EID: 79960444347     PISSN: 13688790     EISSN: 14661888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2010.518348     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Hans Robert Jauss, 'Modernity and Literary Tradition', Critical Inquiry 31(2), 2005, pp 329-364.
2. Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time, K Tribe (trans), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985, pp 231-266.
3. Jauss, 'Modernity', p 312.
4. Jauss, 'Modernity', p 333.
5. Jauss, 'Modernity', p 336.
6. Jauss, 'Modernity', p 348.
7. Jauss, 'Modernity', p 350.
8. Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other, New York: Columbia University Press, 1983, p 6.
9. See Harry Harootunian, Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Community in Interwar Japan, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
10. Perry Anderson, 'Sinomania', London Review of Books 32(2), 2010, pp 3-6, p 5.
11. This was precisely the problem dogging Japanese (and American) explanations of Japan's 'meteoric' transformation into a modern society, and the claims by modernization theorists afterWorldWar II that its achievement constituted a textbook model for less developed societies to emulate. Yet the textbook example drew its explanation for Japan's success from Japanese claims of cultural exceptionalism.
12. This is the argument of Fabian's classic Time and the Other, p 6.
13. Yanagita Kunio, Toshi to nôson, Tokyo: Asahi shinbunsha, 1929.
14. Hasegawa Nyozekan, Fashizumu no hihan, Tokyo: Ohata shoten, 1932.
15. It should be pointed out that sociologists like Barrington Moore expanded on this connection as late as the 1960s to show how the social origins of democracy and dictatorship depended entirely on the circumstances of early or late development. The example of Germany and its economy, which was equivalent to that of the most advanced countries, undermined this argument. Moore neglected seriously to consider the fact that, in the 1930s, most industrial societies flirted with forms of fascism, a product of bad history, if not the sociology of modernization. Moreover, the very conquest of unevenness which explains the social origins of democracy was as much a part of such societies as it was of those states that had resorted to fascism.
16. Hasegawa, Fashizumu no hihan.
17. Yamada Moritarô, Nihon shihonshugi bunseki, Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1934.
18. Moritarô, Nihon shihonshugi, pp 183-215, 3-12.
19. Daniel Bensaid, Marx for Our Times, G Eliott (trans), London: Verso, 2009, p 32. I am also indebted to Daniel Bensaid, La Discordance des temps (Paris: Les Editions de la Passion, 1995), for my own understanding of uneven and untimely temporalities, what he names as contretemps as the French equivalent to Marx's formulations on the co-existent heterogeneity of times.
20. Fabian, Time and the Other, p 155.
21. Harry Harootunian, 'Philosophy and Answerability', in Jun Isomae and Naoki Sakai (eds), Overcoming the Modern and Kyoto Philosophy, forthcoming.
22. The terms are obviously from Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994). I have also consulted Peter Hallward's informative Absolutely Postcolonial (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001).
23. Bhabha, Location, pp 242-245.
24. Bhabha, Location, p 285.
25. Bhabha, Location, p 355.
26. Bhabha, Location, p 227.
27. Dipesh Chakrabarty, 'Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capitalism', in Carol Breckenbridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi Bhabha, and Dipesh Chakrabarty (eds), Cosmopolitanism, special issue of Public Culture 12(3), 2000, pp 653-678.
28. Etienne Balibar, The Philosophy of Marx, London: Verso, 1995, p 67.
29. Dilip Paramshwar Gaonkar, 'On Alternative Modernities', in Dilip Paramshwar Gaonkar (ed), Alternative Modernities, special issue of Public Culture 11(1), 1999, pp 1-8.
30. Bensaid, Marx for Our Times, pp 22, 77.