The self serves as a universally available, effective, and indispensable filter for making sense of the chaos of the wor
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Table of contents :
Contents
Prologue
Acknowledgments
1. Logical Models for Self Analysis: Opposition and Contingency
2. Social Self in Front and Interior Zones: Omote and Uchi
3. Social Self in Back and Exterior Zones: Ura and Soto, Anomalous Counterparts to Omote and Uchi
4. The Inner, Reflexive Self: Interiority and Exteriority in Contingency
5. Self in Cosmology and Aesthetics
Epilogue. In Defense of Japan Studies
References
Index
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