"Defeat and Remembrance: Postwar Japan and the Historical Materialism of Flawed Existence" Yutaka Nagahara Price: ¥4,620 → ¥3,999 Excellent condition. Thank you. [Author] Yutaka Nagahara [Format] 4-6 size, hardcover, with a ribbon bookmark [Pages] 424 pages [Price] ¥4,200 + tax [Code] ISBN978-4-906738-39-7 [Cover Photo] relaxmax [Exposing Japanese Modernity] Takaaki Yoshimoto, Hideo Kobayashi, Kiyoteru Hanada, Takeo Haniya, Masao Maruyama, Sakutaro Hagiwara, Gan Tanigawa, Yoshio Kuroda... To remember - to reminisce about the past, and to re-accept it. To feel - to accept the subtle differences produced by that repetition. To investigate the nature of subjectivity and history in modern Japan, and capitalism, in order to construct a "historical materialism of flawed existence" for the future. [From the Author] People are always driven by the souvenirs of the past - the stagnant goods, and in the present (time), without being able to fully understand them, they place their thoughts on the future, or, as Benjamin would say, on the "foreign land - distant place" collected with the past, remembering - reminiscing about the past in the present in order to survive, and at the end of weariness - just like the "April Theses" - by leaping, even though they are in the present, they are torn between the past and the future, in other words, people are ordered to remain in history. -- From "Remembrance of Defeat, or Comet and the Last" #YutakaNagahara #Yutaka_Nagahara #book #philosophy/philosophy