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

Informationen zum Autor Susan L. Burns is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Klappentext ""Before the Nation" is a significant addition to the field of Japanese intellectual history and a very fine book."--Leslie Pincus, author of "Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics"Departing from earlier studies of kokugaku (which means "the study of our country"), this title considers how three of the more marginalized participants in the movement challenged its principal founder and engaged its fundamental concerns about what defines the Japanese nation and unifies those within it. 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

Product details

• Authors: Burns, Susan L Burns, Susan L. Burns, Susan L. Burns
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2003
• EAN: 9780822331728
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3172-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education