Before the Nation : Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan /

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burns, Susan L., 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nationale identiteit.
Natievorming.
Intellectuelen.
Kokugaku.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Nationalism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Late Tokugawa society and the crisis of community
  • Before the Kojikiden : the divine age narrative in Tokugawa Japan
  • Motoori Norinaga : discovering Japan
  • Ueda Akinari : history and community
  • Fujitani Mitsue : the poetics off community
  • Tachibana Moribe : cosmology and community
  • National literature, intellectual history, and the new Kokugaku
  • Conclusion : imagined Japan(s).

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