Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics

This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers. The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production in the interface between the immediate historical and the wider socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts accompanying the Japanese post-war experience of modernity.
This book will be of great value to anyone interested in the history of contemporary Japanese culture and society.

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Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics

This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers. The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production in the interface between the immediate historical and the wider socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts accompanying the Japanese post-war experience of modernity.
This book will be of great value to anyone interested in the history of contemporary Japanese culture and society.

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Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics

Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics

by Yumiko Iida
Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics

Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics

by Yumiko Iida

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This volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony which examines the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers. The author situates the process of Japanese knowledge production in the interface between the immediate historical and the wider socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts accompanying the Japanese post-war experience of modernity.
This book will be of great value to anyone interested in the history of contemporary Japanese culture and society.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134564651
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/07/2013
Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series , #6
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 2 MB

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Yumiko Iida

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Approaching the questions of Japanese identity and nationalism; Chapter 2 ‘Overcoming modernity’; Chapter 3 Uneasy with the modern; Chapter 4 The age of rapid economic growth and romantic resurgence; Chapter 5 Back to identity; Chapter 6 Japan in the 1990s and beyond; Chapter 7 Japanese nationalism in the late modern world;
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