Japan’s Frames of Meaning: A Hermeneutics Reader 9780824860769

In Japan’s Frames of Meaning, Michael Marra identifies interpretative concepts central to discussions of hermeneutical p

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Japan’s Frames of Meaning: A Hermeneutics Reader
 9780824860769

Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
Things
1. Things and Words
2. Koto. The Japanese Language and the Question of Philosophy
3. Kotodama. An Essay on Kotodama: Words and “Things”
4. Makoto: An Essay on True Words (Makoto)
Depth
5. Concealment and Brittleness
6. Yūgen, Sabi: Take, Sabi, and Yūgen in Japanese Short Poems (Tanka)
Being-Time
7. Impermanence and Contingency
8. Kū. On Bashō
9. Gūzen. Contingency
Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of First Lines
General Index
About the Author

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