Bland Fanatics
Pankaj Mishra: Liberalism and Colonialism, 3 December 2015
On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present
by Alan Ryan.
Penguin, 1152 pp., £14.99, September 2013,978 0 14 028518 5 Show More
by Alan Ryan.
Penguin, 1152 pp., £14.99, September 2013,
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism
by Larry Siedentop.
Penguin, 448 pp., £9.99, January 2015,978 0 14 100954 4 Show More
by Larry Siedentop.
Penguin, 448 pp., £9.99, January 2015,
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
by Edmund Fawcett.
Princeton, 496 pp., £16.95, September 2015,978 0 691 16839 5 Show More
by Edmund Fawcett.
Princeton, 496 pp., £16.95, September 2015,
An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia 1905-37
by Jung-Sun NiHan.
Harvard, 244 pp., £29.95, March 2013,978 0 674 06571 0 Show More
by Jung-Sun NiHan.
Harvard, 244 pp., £29.95, March 2013,
“... of the political theorist Yoshino Sakuzō (1878-1933) shows. In An Imperial Path to Modernity, Jung-sun NiHan describes how Yoshino first developed an idea of the ‘organic state’ in 1905, at the time of the Russo-Japanese War. Every individual, as he saw it, had to be mobilised for the war effort. He still ... ”
