Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives

This book displays the uniqueness and creativity of Japan in terms of the interplay between traditional and postmodern perspectives. It deals with the traditional elements in Japanese culture in the light of or in contrast to postmodernism.

About the author

Steven Heine is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen and editor of Masao Abe's A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion, both published by SUNY Press. He has also written A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dogen Zen and A Dream within a Dream: Studies in Japanese Thought.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Wei Fu
• Assisted by: Charles W. Fu (Editor), Charles Wei Fu (Editor), Charles Wei-Hsun Fu (Editor), Steven Heine (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1995
• EAN: 9780791424704
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2470-4
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: School Reform; School Reform
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous