The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic /

The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic / / Takie Sugiyama Lebra.

The self serves as a universally available, effective, and indispensable filter for making sense of the chaos of the world. In her latest book, Takie Lebra attempts a new understanding of the Japanese self through her unique use of cultural logic. She begins by presenting and elaborating on two mode...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Lebra, Takie Sugiyama,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • About the Author

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