Toward the end of the seventeenth century, Naoki Sakai maintains, a radical change took place in Japanese discourse--the sudden emergence of multiple new possibilities of conceptualizing the world. In this brilliant and searching reinterpretation of the cultural history of the Tokugawa period, Sakai...

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1. Verfasser:	Sakai, Naoki 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Ithaca u.a. Cornell Univ. Press 1992
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1700-1800 Geschichte 1680-1868 Geistesgeschichte 1680-1868 Cultuur Geestesgeschiedenis Japans Lenguas - Filosofía Kultur Philosophie Japanese language > Philosophy Philosophy, Modern > 18th century Kulturwandel Sprachtheorie Japan > Intellectual life > 1600-1868 Japan
Zusammenfassung:	Toward the end of the seventeenth century, Naoki Sakai maintains, a radical change took place in Japanese discourse--the sudden emergence of multiple new possibilities of conceptualizing the world. In this brilliant and searching reinterpretation of the cultural history of the Tokugawa period, Sakai traces this shift across a spectrum of artistic and critical texts from puppet theater to Confucian commentary. He asserts that during this time a new emphasis was placed on textual performance, practice, and communication, and he illuminates its ethical and political consequences. Sakai draws upon the insights of recent critical theory as he explores the historical consciousness of texts and the self-consciousness of language itself. Analyzing the conditions of discourse formation, he seeks to suggest how language may be used to inform historical investigation. He first considers the Confucian philosopher Ito Jinsai's critiques of Neo-Confucianism. Showing how the historical other was constructed and theorized, Sakai discusses key works of visual art, performance pieces, poetry, and wakun, a genre of graphic translation. Finally, he considers writings representative of intellectual movements that began to construct the identity of the Japanese language and culture. Intellectual historians, specialists in Japanese culture, anthropologists working with historical texts, literary theorists, linguists, philosophers, and others interested in East Asian thought will welcome this rich and challenging book.
Beschreibung:	Zugl.: Univ. of Chicago, Diss. 1983
Beschreibung:	XIV, 349 S.
ISBN:	0801425808