![]() | One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan Subjects: Japan -- History -- 1945-; Political culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Democracy -- Japan; Shiso no Kagaku Kenkyukai; After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of the Institute for the Science of Thought, one of the most influential associations to emerge in the early postwar years. The institute's founders believed that the estrangement of intellectuals from the general public had contributed to the rise of fascism. To address this, they sought to develop a "science of thought" that would reconnect the world of ideas with everyday experience and thus reimagine Japan as a democratic nation, home to one hundred million philosophers. Bronson Adam : Adam Bronson is assistant professor of history at Salisbury University. |
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