Before the Nation - Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan

Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation."

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Between Community and the Nation 1

1 Late Tokugawa Society and the Crisis of Community 16

2 Before the Kojikiden: The Divine Age Narrative in Tokugawa Japan 35

3 Motoori Norinaga: Discovering Japan 68

4 Ueda Akinari: History and Community 102

5 Fujitani Mitsue: The Poetics of Community 131

6 Tachibana Moribe: Cosmology and Community 158

7 National Literature, Intellectual History, and the New Kokugaku 187

Conclusion: Imagined Japan(s) 220

Appendix: "Reading" the Kojiki 227

Notes 231

Works Cited 259

Index 271

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Susan L. Burns is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago.

Zusammenfassung

Exploring how theories of "nation-ness" that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan emerged and evolved, the author provides a close examination of kokugaku, a late-eighteenth-century Japanese intellectual movement.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Burns, Susan L Burns, Susan L. Burns, Susan L. Burns
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 02.12.2003
• EAN: 9780822331834
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3183-4
• Seiten: 296
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 239 mm x 28 mm
• Gewicht: 544 g
• Serien: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung