Description |
1 online resource. |
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Series |
Weatherhead books on Asia
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Weatherhead books on Asia.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: on repetition, singularity, and historicity -- Seiji M. Lippit -- Introduction: on the eighteenth brumaire of Louis Bonaparte -- History and repetition in Japan -- The discursive space of modern Japan -- The allegory of Oe Kenzaburo: football in the year man'en 1 -- The landscape of Murakami Haruki: pinball in the year 1973 -- Translated by Hisayo Suzuki -- The end of the modern novel -- Translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs -- Buddhism and Fascism. |
Summary |
Kojin Karatani, one of Japan's most influential thinkers, wrote the essays collected in History and Repetition during a period of radical historical change, triggered by the collapse of the Cold War order and the death of the Sh?wa emperor in 1989. Through an original reading of Marx, Karatani developed a theory of history based on the repetitive cycle of crises attending the expansion and transformation of capital. His work led to a rigorous theoretical analysis of political, economic, and literary forms of representation-joined by a detailed, empirical study of Japan's modern history-th. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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Japan -- History -- 1868- -- Historiography.
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Japan. |
Chronological Term |
1868- |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan. |
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History. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General. |
Chronological Term |
Since 1868 |
Genre/Form |
History.
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Added Author |
Lippit, Seiji M.
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Added Title |
Rekishi to hanpuku. English
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231157285 0231157282 (DLC) 2011012631 |
ISBN |
0231528655 (electronic book) |
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9780231528658 (electronic book) |
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9780231157285 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231157282 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231157292 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0231157290 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781281897589 |
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1281897582 |
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9786613792532 |
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6613792535 |
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