Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation 9780824863104
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction
HERMENEUTICS AND JAPAN
1. Method, Hermeneutics, Truth
2. Poetics of Intransitivity
3. The Hermeneutic Approach to Japanese Modernity: “Art-Way,” “Iki,” and “Cut-Continuance”
4. Frame and Link: A Philosophy of Japanese Composition
5. The Eloquent Stillness of Stone: Rock in the Dry Landscape Garden
6. Motoori Norinaga’s Hermeneutic of Mono no Aware: The Link between Ideal and Tradition
7. Between Individual and Communal, Subject and Object, Self and Other: Mediating Watsuji Tetsurō’s Hermeneutics
JAPAN’S AESTHETIC HERMENEUTICS
8. Nishi Amane on Aesthetics: A Japanese Version of Utilitarian Aesthetics
9. Hegel in Tokyo: Ernest Fenollosa and His 1882 Lecture on the Truth of Art
10. Ōgai, Schelling, and Aesthetics
11. Cognitive Gaps in the Recognition of Masters and Masterpieces in the Formative Years of Japanese Art History, 1880–1900: Historiography in Conflict
12. Nature—the Naturalization of Experience as National
13. Coincidentia Oppositorum:Ōnishi Yoshinori’s Greek Genealogies of Japan
14. Representations of “Japaneseness” in Modern Japanese Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Critique of Comparative Reason
JAPAN’S LITERARY HERMENEUTICS
15. Constructing “Japanese Literature”: Global and Ethnic Nationalism
16. What Is Bungaku? The Reformulation of the Concept of “Literature” in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
17. Primitive Vision: Heidegger’s Hermeneutics and Man’yōshū
18. Saitō Mokichi’s Poetics of Shasei
NOTES
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
