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What makes life worth living? : how Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds / Gordon Mathews

Mathews, Gordon, 1955-

Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1996

Online Ressource (x, 277 pages)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: What makes life worth living?

978-0-520-91647-0 ( : electronic bk.); 0-520-91647-6 (electronic bk.); 0-585-28509-8 (electronic bk.); 978-0-585-28509-2 ( : electronic bk.)

0-520-20133-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-20132-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 45730951     

OCoLC: 45730951 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

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LOC-SH: Social values -- Japan ; Quality of life -- Japan ; Social values -- United States ; Quality of life -- United States ; Conduct of life -- Japan -- United States ; Conduct of life ; Quality of life -- Japan ; Social values -- Japan ; Quality of life -- United States ; Social values -- United States ; Quality of life -- United States ; Conduct of life ; Social values -- United States ; Social values -- Japan ; Quality of life -- Japan ; Electronic books

Electronic books ; United States ; Japan ; Quality of life ; Social values ; Social Conditions ; Sociology & Social History ; Social Sciences ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Conduct of life

pt. 1. The cultural foundations of Ikigai -- Introduction: what makes life worth living? The varieties of Ikigai in Japan -- Individualism, community, and conformity in the United States -- The comparison of Japanese and American selves -- pt. 2. Ikigai in Japanese and American lives. Ikigai in work and family. Ikigai and gender -- Ikigai in past and future. Ikigai and dreams -- Ikigai in creation and religion. Ikigai and significance -- pt. 3. Ikigai and the meaning of life. A phenomenological analysis of Ikigai -- Ikigai and the meaning of life.