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Dreams of Difference

The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

By: Kevin Michael Doak

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Dreams of Difference

The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

By: Kevin Michael Doak

From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of modernity in early twentieth-century Japan. He uses close readings and translations of texts and poems to suggest that the school's interest in romanticism stemmed from its attempt to surmount the "cultural crisis" of lost traditions. This attempt to overcome modernity eventually reduced the movement's earlier critical impulses to expressions of nationalist longing.

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Univ of California Press

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0520914244

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9780520914247

Plotting the Prince

Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism

By: Kevin Gray Carr

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Plotting the Prince

Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism

By: Kevin Gray Carr

Plotting the Prince traces the development of conceptual maps of the world created through the telling of stories about Prince Shōtoku (573?–622?), an eminent statesman who is credited with founding Buddhism in Japan. It analyzes his place in the sacred landscape and the material relics of the cult of personality dedicated to him, focusing on the art created from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. The book asks not only who Shōtoku was, but also how images of his life served the needs of devotees in early medieval Japan. Even today Shōtoku evokes images of a half-real, half-mythical figure who embodied the highest political, social, and religious ideals. Taking up his story about four centuries after his death, this study traces the genesis and progression of Shōtoku’s sacred personas in art to illustrate their connection to major religious centers such as Shitenno-ji and Hōryū-ji. It argues that mapping and storytelling are sister acts—both structuring the world in subtle but compelling ways—that combined in visual narratives of Shōtoku’s life to shape conceptions of religious legitimacy, communal history, and sacred geography. Plotting the Prince introduces much new material and presents provocative interpretations that call upon art historians to rethink fundamental conceptions of narrative and cultic imagery. It offers social and political historians a textured look at the creation of communal identities on both local and state levels, scholars of religion a substantially new way of understanding key developments in doctrine and practice, and those studying the past in general a clear instance of visual hagiography taking precedence over the textual tradition.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824865723

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9780824865726

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West

By: Kevin M. Doak

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Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West

By: Kevin M. Doak

This book explores one of the 20th century’s most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked. Tanaka Kōtarō (1890-1974) was modern Japan’s pre-eminent legal scholar and jurist. Yet because most of his writing was in Japanese, he has been largely overlooked outside of Japan. His influence in Japan was extraordinary: the only Japanese to serve in all three branches of government, and the longest serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His influence outside Japan also was extensive, from his informal diplomacy in Latin America in the prewar period to serving on the International Court of Justice in the 1960s. His stinging dissent on that court in the 1966 South-West Africa Case is often cited even today by international jurists working on human rights issues. Above and beyond these particular lines of influence, Tanaka outlined a unique critique of international law as inherently imperialistic and offered as its replacement a theory of World Law (aka “Global Law”) based on the Natural Law. What makes Tanaka’s position especially notable is that he defended the Natural Law not as a European but from his vantage point as a Japanese jurist, and he did so not from public law, but from his own expertise in private law. This work introduces Tanaka to a broader, English-reading public and hopes thereby to correct certain biases about the potential scope of ideas concerning human rights, universality of reason, law and ethics.

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Springer

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3030020355

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Dreams of Difference

The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

By: Kevin Michael Doak

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The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

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Univ of California Press

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A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

Placing the People

By: Kevin Doak

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A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

Placing the People

By: Kevin Doak

This magisterial history of Japanese nationalism reveals nationalism to be a contested and pluralistic practice that seeks to center the people in political life. It presents a wealth of primary source material on how Japanese themselves have understood their national identity.

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BRILL

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9004155988

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9789004155985

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West

By: Kevin M. Doak

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Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West

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Religious Nationalism

Hindus and Muslims in India

By: Peter van der Veer

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Religious Nationalism

Hindus and Muslims in India

By: Peter van der Veer

Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between religion and politics m India goes well beyond other books on this subject.

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0520082206

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Dreams of Difference

Dreams of Difference

Plotting the Prince

Plotting the Prince

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Dreams of Difference

Dreams of Difference

A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Religious Nationalism

Religious Nationalism

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