2003, ISBN: 0822331721

[EAN: 9780822331728], Neubuch, [PU: Duke University Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780822331728], Neubuch, [PU: Duke University Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country." Departing from earlier studies of kokugaku that focused on intellectuals whose work has been valorized by modern scholars, Burns seeks to recover the multiple ways "Japan" as social and cultural identity began to be imagined before modernity.Central to Burns's analysis is Motoori Norinaga's Kojikiden, arguably the most important intellectual work of Japan's early modern period. Burns situates the Kojikiden as one in a series of attempts to analyze and interpret the mythohistories dating from the early eighth century, the Kojiki and Nihon shoki. Norinaga saw these texts as keys to an original, authentic, and idyllic Japan that existed before being tainted by "flawed" foreign influences, notably Confucianism and Buddhism. Hailed in the nineteenth century as the begetter of a new national consciousness, Norinaga's Kojikiden was later condemned by some as a source of Japan's twentieth-century descent into militarism, war, and defeat. Burns looks in depth at three kokugaku writers-Ueda Akinari, Fujitani Mitsue, and Tachibana Moribe-who contested Norinaga's interpretations and produced competing readings of the mythohistories that offered new theories of community as the basis for Japanese social and cultural identity. Though relegated to the footnotes by a later generation of scholars, these writers were quite influential in their day, and by recovering their arguments, Burns reveals kokugaku as a complex debate-involving history, language, and subjectivity-with repercussions extending well into the modern era., Books<

ISBN: 9780822331728

Title:-Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Asia-Pacific)Author:-Burns, Susan L.Format:-PaperbackPublisher:-Duke University PressPublisher Dat… Mehr…

Title:-Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Asia-Pacific)Author:-Burns, Susan L.Format:-PaperbackPublisher:-Duke University PressPublisher Date:-2003-12-02Pages:-296Genre:-ISBN13:-9780822331728Condition:- BRAND NEW, Nieuw, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Weight: 448grams, Subjects: Politics & Society, Pages: 296, Size: 23.3 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm, Topic: Politics, Book Title: Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Ea, EAN: 9780822331728, Publication Year: 2003, Type: Textbook, Format: Paperback, Subject Area: Political Science, Language: English, Publication Name: Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan, Item Height: 235mm, Item Width: 152mm, Subject: Government, History, Number of Pages: 296 Pages, Duke University Press<

2003, ISBN: 9780822331728

Trade paperback, New., Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 296 p. Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4… Mehr…

Trade paperback, New., Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 296 p. Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers., [PU: Duke University Press]<

2003, ISBN: 9780822331728

Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Duke University Press], Duke University Press, 2003