Author : Klaus Kracht
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783447028028
Texts in Japanese and in German translation; with critical matter in German and an introductory essay in English.
Author : Heinrich Dumoulin
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780941532907
In this second volume of his classic history, one of the world's foremost Zen scholars turns his attention to the development of Zen in Japan.
Author : Josef Kreiner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004105164
Is Japanese society essentially different from other modern industrialized societies, or not? This survey work with contributions from the leading scholars in this complicated field, presents a full overview of the most important aspects of Japanese society which may lead the reader to find an answer to these two often-asked questions. Japanese society, defined as those institutions shaping the life of individuals and groups, as well as being responsible for the dynamics of social development, is shown to be as modern as any other industrialized society; definitely distinct, though, are the ways in which institutions are defined and organised as a result of different social and historical roots of the process of modernization.
Author : Lee M. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1443804193
German-speaking Europe is an array of images that have emerged from varied discourses about itself and its neighbors, and “Germany and the Imagined East” revolves around the exchange of views on and in the vast construct called “the East.” The world has been divided conceptually in countless ways, but the works in this volume treat aspects of Germany as both part of and also separate from any perception of an eastern border. From the former German Democratic Republic,“East Germany,” to Österreich—whose name loses its eastern association in the English version, Austria,—the East begins within the very world of the German language. But it is also the expanse off to the right of Germany, within which essays in this collection treat such political and cultural distinctions as former Yugoslavia, Romania and Russia in Eastern Europe, or Turkey and Persia in the Near East, spreading through India to China and Japan in the Far East. With a variety of perspectives on literature, film, philosophy, architecture, music and history, these essays comprise a multidisciplinary collage that invites scholars from all departments to explore the wealth of insights German Studies has to offer on East-West relations.
Author : Wolfgang Frühwald
Publisher : Duncker & Humblot
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783428025268
Author : David Weiss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1350271195
This book discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo. Described as an ambivalent figure and wanderer between the worlds, Susanoo served as a foil to set off the sun goddess, who played an important role in the modern construction of a Japanese national identity. Susanoo inhabited a sinister otherworld, which came to be associated with colonial Korea. Imperialist ideologues were able to build on these interpretations of the Susanoo myth to depict Korea as a dreary realm at the margin of the Japanese empire that made the imperial metropole shine all the more brightly. At the same time, Susanoo was identified as the ancestor of the Korean people. Thus, the colonial subjects were ideologically incorporated into the homogeneous Japanese family state. The book situates Susanoo in Japan's cultural memory and shows how the deity, while being repeatedly transformed in order to meet the religious and ideological needs of the day, continued to symbolize the margin of Japan.
Author : Simone Lässig
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1789202795
In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed to teach young people about different cultures and world regions. These multifaceted contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies delve into the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world.
Author : Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : Peter Backhaus
Publisher : IUDICIUM Verlag
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 3891293828
Der aktuelle Band der Japanstudien beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Familie. Er besteht aus zehn themenrelevanten Beiträgen und sechs Buchbesprechungen, von denen jeweils die eine Hälfte in deutscher und die andere Hälfte in englischer Sprache verfasst ist. Zusammengenommen möchten die hier versammelten Beiträge einen vielfältigen und detaillierten Einblick in japanisches Familienleben ermöglichen, der dazu anregen soll, das Thema Familie und die ihr derzeit unterstellte Krise differenziert und aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln zu betrachten.
Author : David Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 131791855X
The transcripts of the three Kyoto School roundtable discussions of the theme of ‘the standpoint of world history and Japan’ may now be judged to form the key source text of responsible Pacific War revisionism. Published in the pages of Chuo Koron, the influential magazine of enlightened elite Japanese opinion during the twelve months after Pearl Harbor, these subversive discussions involved four of the finest minds of the second generation of the Kyoto School of philosophy. Tainted by controversy and shrouded in conspiratorial mystery, these transcripts were never republished in Japan after the war, and they have never been translated into English except in selective and often highly biased form. David Williams has now produced the first objective, balanced and close interpretative reading of these three discussions in their entirety since 1943. This version of the wartime Kyoto School transcripts is neither a translation nor a paraphrase but a fuller rendering in reader-friendly English that is convincingly faithful to the spirit of the original texts. The result is a masterpiece of interpretation and inter-cultural understanding between the Confucian East and the liberal West. Seventy years after Tojo came to power, these documents of the Japanese resistance to his wartime government and policies exercise a unique claim on students of Japanese history and thought today because of their unrivalled revelatory potential within the vast literature on the Pacific War. The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance may therefore stand as the most trenchant analysis of the political, philosophic and legal foundations of the place of the Pacific War in modern Japanese history yet to appear in any language.
