Burns / Chow / Harootunian Before the Nation

Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8490-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of “nation.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burns, Susan L

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Huntington, Madge

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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