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Authenticating culture in imperial Japan : Kuki Shūzō and the rise of national aesthetics /

Nearly a half century after Japan opened its doors to Western knowledge, intellectual discourse there took a sharp turn inward. Drawing on the cultural resources of a forgotten past, Japanese thinkers of the 1910s and 1930s imagined a realm of authenticity impervious to the fragmenting processes of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pincus, Leslie, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Series:Twentieth-century Japan ; 5.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Exotic Seductions and the Return to Japan
  • 2. Encounters across Borders: The Philosophical Quest for Experience
  • 3. History or Value: The Vicissitudes of Edo Culture
  • 4. Hermeneutics; Or Culture Repossessed
  • 5. An Aristocracy of Taste in an Age of Mass Culture
  • Epilogue: How the Cultural Landscape Became the Property of the State.