Susan L Burns

Before the Nation

Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan

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Produktbeschreibung

""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"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331728
• ISBN-10: 0822331721
• Artikelnr.: 21641519

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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