| Title | : | Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism |
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| ISBN | : | 0226317072 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780226317076 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 508 |
| Publication | : | First published March 1, 1988 |
This long-awaited work explores the place of kokugaku (rendered here as "nativism") during Japan's Tokugawa period. Kokugaku, the sense of a distinct and sacred Japanese identity, appeared in the eighteenth century in reaction to the pervasive influence of Chinese culture on Japan. Against this influence, nativists sought a Japanese sense of difference grounded in folk tradition, agricultural values, and ancient Japanese religion. H. D. Harootunian treats nativism as a discourse and shows how it functioned ideologically in Tokugawa Japan.
Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism Reviews
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Its a very good book, Harootunian is a fantastic historian with original ideas, however he is the WORST writer I have ever seen. You'll get a lot out of it, but reading this was a very slow and painful process. You'll have to read everything about 3 times, and even then you wont quite get it. And he loves the word 'discourse', though he doesn't always use it in the right way
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only read intro and epilogue, will revisit this book later ... tons of required readings to deal with, I can only diverge a little ...
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