Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan

Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics

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Leslie Pincus

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Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

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During the interwar years in Japan, discourse on culture turned sharply inward after generations of openness to Western ideas. The characterisations that arose - that Japanese culture is unique, essential, and enduring - came to be accepted both inside and outside Japan. Leslie Pincus focuses on the work of Kuki Shuzo, a philosopher and the author of the classic 'Iki" no Kozo", to explore culture and theory in Japan during the interwar years. She shows how Japanese intellectual culture ultimately became complicit, even instrumental, in an increasingly repressive and militaristic regime that ultimately brought the world to war. Pincus provides an extensive critical study of Kuki's intellectual lineage and shows how it intersects with a number of central figures in both European and Japanese philosophy. The discussion moves between Germany, France, and Japan, providing a guide to the development of culture in a number of national settings from the turn of the century to the 1930s. Inspired by the work of Foucault, the Marxist culturalists, and the Frankfurt School, Pincus reads against the grain of traditional interpretation. Her theoretically informed approach situates culture in a

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Leslie Pincus is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

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June 25th, 1996

Author

Leslie Pincus

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Professional & Vocational

Pages

285

Series

Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

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159x235x28

ISBN-13

9780520201347

Product ID

4781437

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