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The Politics of Loss: On Eto Jun

As part of a larger critical reexamination of the relationship between public social space, private subjects, and the state in the period of high economic growth in postwar Japan, this article considers the shifting status of the public intellectual by examining the career and writings of critic Etō Jun (1932–1999).1 Since he started writing in the late 1950s, Etō continuously acted as a central player in the formation of the public sphere in Japan. By public sphere I mean the realms of public discourse that engender public opinion, or as Geoff Eley (elaborating on Jürgen Habermas’s concept) has described it, “the structured setting where cultural and ideological contest or negotiation among a variety of publics takes place.”2 While social and political debates such as those surrounding the Anpo U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and the widespread grassroots citizens’ movements dominate the image of the public sphere in the 1960s, an individual such as Etō—known