ISBN:
0203849884
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1282882821
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9781282882829
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9781136958489
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9780203849880
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 255 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge / Leiden series in modern East Asian politics and history 6
Parallel Title:
Print version The Politics of Culture : Around the Work of Naoki Sakai
DDC:
306.20952
Keywords:
Sakai, Naoki Criticism and interpretation
;
Politics and culture
;
Japan Politics and government
Abstract:
Takes the groundbreaking work of Naoki Sakai as its starting point and broadens the scope of Cultural Studies to bridge across philosophy and critical theory. This title problematizes the putative divide between 'Asian' and 'Western' research objects and methodologies, and the link between culture and the nation
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Translation and its effects; 1 Novelistic desire, theoretical attitude, and translating heteroglossia: Reading Natsume Soseki's Sanshiro with Naoki Sakai; 2 Deixis, dislocation, and suspense in translation: Tawada Yôko's "The Bath"; 3 Politics as translation: Naoki Sakai and the critique of hermeneutics; 4 The biopolitics of companion species: Wartime animation and multi-ethnic nationalism; 5 Translating the image; Part II: Economies of difference; 6 For a communist ontology
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Living in transition: Toward a heterolingual theory of the multitude8 Transition to a world society: Naoki Sakai's work in the context of capital-imperialism; 9 Total war and subjectivity: "Economic ethics" as a trajectory toward postwar; Part III: The modern West and its outside; 10 The Western relation: The politics of humanism; 11 Modernization, modernity, and tradition: Sociological theory's promissory notes; 12 Theologico-political militancy in Ignacio de Loyola's Ejercicios espirituales; Interview with Naoki Sakai; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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