Evanescence and Form

An Introduction to Japanese Culture

C. Inouye (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2008
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-6705-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores the Japanese notion of hakanasa - the evanescence of all things. Responses to this idea have been various and even contradictory: asceticism, fatalism, conformism, hedonism, materialism, and careerism. This book examines the ties between an epistemology of constant change and Japan's formal emphasis on etiquette and visuality.

CHARLES SHIRO INOUYE is a Professor of Japanese and former Dean of the Colleges for Undergraduate Education, Tufts University, USA.

All Things Are Changing Defining the Sacred Flux and Identity Leaving the World Hedonism Sacrifice Fatalism Work Wrapping Materialism The Supremacy of Style The Nature of Etiquette Not One Space but Many If There Were a Holy Book Visual Nature A World Where Nothing Is Special

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.10.2008
Zusatzinfo	XV, 260 p.
Verlagsort	Gordonsville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4039-6705-9 / 1403967059
ISBN-13	978-1-4039-6705-3 / 9781403967053
Zustand	Neuware