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."

Sommario

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

Info autore

Susan L. Burns

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Burns, Susan L Burns, Susan L. Burns, Susan L. Burns
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.12.2003
• EAN: 9780822331834
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3183-4
• Pagine: 296
• Peso: 540 g
• Serie: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva