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

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]
	©1996

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Description	1 online resource (x, 277 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.
Contents	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.
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Subject	Social values -- Japan.
	Social values.
	Japan.
	Quality of life -- Japan.
	Quality of life.
	Social values -- United States.
	United States.
	Quality of life -- United States.
	Conduct of life.
	Conduct of life.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Mathews, Gordon. What makes life worth living?. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996 0520201337 (DLC) 95022263 (OCoLC)32665968
ISBN	9780520916470 (electronic book)
	0520916476 (electronic book)
	0585285098 (electronic book)
	9780585285092 (electronic book)
	0520201337 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0520201329 (alkaline paper)