Yukichi Fukuzawa and the Making of the Modern World

By:

Alan Macfarlane

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Major Thinkers

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Yukichi Fukuzawa is arguably the greatest Japanese socialthinker of the last three centuries. In numerous books, inparticular An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1973) andAutobiography (1972) he outlined his many ideas, not leaston the raised status of women.By setting up bookshops, universities, schools, modernaccounting, and modern manufacturing he became oneof the principal architects of modern Japan, where hisimage is still on the highest-denomination Japanesebanknote. Through his travels to the West and readingof western philosophy, he discovered the secret essenceof civilization and modernity and explained this to hiscountrymen and women.Alan Macfarlane, F.B.A., is an Emeritus Professor ofAnthropology at Cambridge University and a Life Fellowof King's College. His website is alanmacfarlane.com.

Release date Australia

February 26th, 2018

Author

Alan Macfarlane

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

170

Series

Major Thinkers

Dimensions

133x203x9

ISBN-13

9781986029377

Product ID

37284237

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