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"Since the West as well as Asia, the modern and the pre-modern are distinct from one another, it stands to reason that modernity must first be conceptualized separately from Westerness, but since the origin of modernity is Western, the two can not be separated so easily. This is why in Non- Western Countries the critique of modernity and the critique of the West tend to be confused. ... to construct any history of twentieth- century Japan, the modern must first be re-conceptualized in Japanese terms" - Karatani (The Origins of Japanese Literature. ...
The previous citation was written by a leading Japanese art historian and critic, Kojin Karatani, in 1942. ... Prior to the Japanese economic boom following World War II, Western critics were already unable to divorce the stigma of the West from the arena of aesthetics.
Approximate Word count = 562
Approximate Pages = 2.2
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