Dr. Robert Stolz of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia will deliver the Department of History’s 21st annual Rev. Henry W. Casper, S.J., Lecture on Monday, April 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Raynor Library’s Beaumier Suites B and C.
Stolz will share “On Fascism: Lessons from Japan.” No registration is required.
A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive — yet underrecognized — theorists of capitalism, fascism and ideology in the years before World War II. In his masterpiece, “The Japanese Ideology,” first published in 1935, Tosaka offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary Japanese ideology that exposes liberalism’s deep complicity with fascism. Reckoning with “The Japanese Ideology” is essential for all those persuaded that deprovincializing the debate on fascism is an urgent intellectual and political task.
Stolz is an associate professor of history writing and teaching on Japanese political economy, environmental history and social theory. He is co-editor of “Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader” (2014) and author of “Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950” (2014).
