By Yumiko Iida
ISBN-10: 0415235219
ISBN-13: 9780415235211
This quantity is a big reconsideration of jap past due modernity and nationwide hegemony which examines the artistic and educational works of a few influential jap thinkers. the writer situates the method of jap wisdom construction within the interface among the rapid old and the broader socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts accompanying the japanese post-war adventure of modernity.
This e-book should be of significant price to an individual drawn to the background of up to date eastern tradition and society.
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11 2 ‘Overcoming modernity’ Towards an aesthetic politics of identity 11 11 111 111 111 111 . . in the grip of such a radical irony, even I in some instances wanted to imagine a revolution. As Kokugaku-like ideas became increasingly pronounced in Yasuda’s writing, a complete rejection of all political realism and all situational analysis came strongly forward, leading him to insist with a desperate intensity on the destruction of scientific thinking. It was almost like an accelerating premonition of the defeat and coming catastrophe.
Human existence incessantly continues by incessantly ending. The ‘existence for death’ in the perspective of the individual is the ‘existence for life’ from the stand-point of society. . It is from the union of climate with history that the latter obtains its flesh and bones. If spirit is to be defined in opposition to materiality, history cannot be conceived solely as a self-realization of spirit. Only when spirit, as self-active being, is a subject which objectifies itself, in other words, only when it includes such a self-active physical principle, does it realizes itself as history.
For this reason I love words – the surface that shines brighter. . Form is nothing more than the arrangement of words whose meaning comes through rhythm. Without the form of this arrangement of words, can there possibly be content? 26 Determined to accompany the incessant forward movement of the modern to the end, even at the cost of its worst effects, Yokomitsu sought to give a positive value to the active acceptance of the apparent loss of meaning as the condition for living in the challenging new age.
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