Evanescence and form an introduction to Japanese culture
In spring the cherry blossoms -- Change and nature -- Japanese poetics and a first consideration of animism -- Utsusemi, the Cicada's shell -- Hakanasa and mujo -- Anitya in a world of spontaneity -- Life as it seems, Nagarjuna's emptiness -- Shukke: leaving the world -- Success and failur...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Basingstoke u.a.
Palgrave Macmillan
c2008
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| Online Zugang: | Verlagsangaben Autorenbiografie Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In spring the cherry blossoms -- Change and nature -- Japanese poetics and a first consideration of animism -- Utsusemi, the Cicada's shell -- Hakanasa and mujo -- Anitya in a world of spontaneity -- Life as it seems, Nagarjuna's emptiness -- Shukke: leaving the world -- Success and failure -- The transcendental order/the order of here-and-now -- Zen, kata, and the noh theater -- Hedonism -- Matsuo Basho, permanence and change -- Mono no aware, the sadness of things -- Protocol and loyal retainers -- Inner and outer: the expanding context of modernity -- Monstrosity -- Change under the transcendental order -- Late-modern Japan (1868-1970) -- The colonial context: adapt or die -- Explaining Japan-linking here-and-now with the new world order -- Japan as bushido -- Japan as tea-ism -- Japan as erotic style -- In the margins of empire-the rape of Nanking -- Other horrors of life on the margins -- Kamikaze -- The a-bomb, and a new kind of nothing -- Occupation: radical change as salvation -- Decadence, moving away from form -- To live! -- Nihil versus nothingness -- Higashiyama Kaii: embracing passivity -- Return to evanescence -- Contemporary Japan (since 1970) -- Fashion and the joy of evanescence |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Formerly CIP |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 260 p. ill 25cm |
| ISBN: | 1403967059 1-4039-6705-9 9781403967053 978-1-4039-6705-3 1403967067 1-4039-6706-7 9781403967060 978-1-4039-6706-0 |