Anthony Elliott is Director of the Hawke Research Institute, where he is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia.Masataka Katagiri is a Professor at Chiba University, Chiba. His recent books include Jiko no Hakken: Shakaigaku-shi no Furontia ([Discovery of the Self: Frontier of the History of Sociology], Seakai-shiso-sha, 2011) and Ninchi Shakaigaku no Koso: Kategori, Jiko, Shakai ([The Basic Idea of Cognitive Sociology: Category, Self and Society], Sekai-shiso-sha, 2006).Atsushi Sawai is Professor of Sociology at Keio University, Tokyo. His recent books include Karl Manheim: Jidai o Shindansuru Bomeisha ([Karl Mannheim: An Exile Diagnosing an Epoch], Toshin-do, 2004) and Shi to Shibetsu no Shakaigaku ([The Sociology of Death and Bereavement: A Social Theory Approach], Seikyu-sha, 2005).

• Part 1: Traditions of Social Thought 1. Phenomenological Sociology in Japan and its Significance for Contemporary Social Research 2. Critical Theory and its Development in Post-War Japanese Sociology: Pursuing True Democracy in Rapid Capitalist Modernization 3. Japanese Psychoanalysis as Deciphering the Japanese Unconsciousness and Supporting the Japanese Subject 4. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and Thereafter 5. Acceptance of Beck’s Theory in Japan: From Environmental Risks to Individualization Part 2: Issues in Japanese Social Theory 6. The Three Selves in Japanese Society: Individualized, Privatized, and Psychologized Selves 7. Japanese Feminist Social Theory and Gender Equality 8. Network, Community and Culture 9. Postmodernity 10. Globalization. Afterword: Apollo’s Chariot

Anthony Elliott is Director of the Hawke Research Institute, where he is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia.Masataka Katagiri is a Professor at Chiba University, Chiba. His recent books include Jiko no Hakken: Shakaigaku-shi no Furontia ([Discovery of the Self: Frontier of the History of Sociology], Seakai-shiso-sha, 2011) and Ninchi Shakaigaku no Koso: Kategori, Jiko, Shakai ([The Basic Idea of Cognitive Sociology: Category, Self and Society], Sekai-shiso-sha, 2006).Atsushi Sawai is Professor of Sociology at Keio University, Tokyo. His recent books include Karl Manheim: Jidai o Shindansuru Bomeisha ([Karl Mannheim: An Exile Diagnosing an Epoch], Toshin-do, 2004) and Shi to Shibetsu no Shakaigaku ([The Sociology of Death and Bereavement: A Social Theory Approach], Seikyu-sha, 2005).

• Part 1: Traditions of Social Thought 1. Phenomenological Sociology in Japan and its Significance for Contemporary Social Research 2. Critical Theory and its Development in Post-War Japanese Sociology: Pursuing True Democracy in Rapid Capitalist Modernization 3. Japanese Psychoanalysis as Deciphering the Japanese Unconsciousness and Supporting the Japanese Subject 4. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and Thereafter 5. Acceptance of Beck’s Theory in Japan: From Environmental Risks to Individualization Part 2: Issues in Japanese Social Theory 6. The Three Selves in Japanese Society: Individualized, Privatized, and Psychologized Selves 7. Japanese Feminist Social Theory and Gender Equality 8. Network, Community and Culture 9. Postmodernity 10. Globalization. Afterword: Apollo’s Chariot

Anthony Elliott is Director of the Hawke Research Institute, where he is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of South Australia.Masataka Katagiri is a Professor at Chiba University, Chiba. His recent books include Jiko no Hakken: Shakaigaku-shi no Furontia ([Discovery of the Self: Frontier of the History of Sociology], Seakai-shiso-sha, 2011) and Ninchi Shakaigaku no Koso: Kategori, Jiko, Shakai ([The Basic Idea of Cognitive Sociology: Category, Self and Society], Sekai-shiso-sha, 2006).Atsushi Sawai is Professor of Sociology at Keio University, Tokyo. His recent books include Karl Manheim: Jidai o Shindansuru Bomeisha ([Karl Mannheim: An Exile Diagnosing an Epoch], Toshin-do, 2004) and Shi to Shibetsu no Shakaigaku ([The Sociology of Death and Bereavement: A Social Theory Approach], Seikyu-sha, 2005).

• Part 1: Traditions of Social Thought 1. Phenomenological Sociology in Japan and its Significance for Contemporary Social Research 2. Critical Theory and its Development in Post-War Japanese Sociology: Pursuing True Democracy in Rapid Capitalist Modernization 3. Japanese Psychoanalysis as Deciphering the Japanese Unconsciousness and Supporting the Japanese Subject 4. Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and Thereafter 5. Acceptance of Beck’s Theory in Japan: From Environmental Risks to Individualization Part 2: Issues in Japanese Social Theory 6. The Three Selves in Japanese Society: Individualized, Privatized, and Psychologized Selves 7. Japanese Feminist Social Theory and Gender Equality 8. Network, Community and Culture 9. Postmodernity 10. Globalization. Afterword: Apollo’s Chariot