Evanescence and Form: An Introduction to Japanese Culture (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Evanescence and Form If we thought that reality were changeable, fragile, and fleeting, would we take life more seriously or less seriously? This book contemplates the notion of hakanasa, the evanescence of all things, as understood by the Japanese. Their lived responses to this idea of impermanence have been various and even contradictory. Asceticism, fatalism, conformism. Hedonism, materialism, careerism. What this ...
Full description- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Published: 14 October 2008
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Sociology: Customs & Traditions | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Oriental & Indian Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9781403967060 ISBN 10: 1403967067
- Sales rank: 976,955
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Full description for Evanescence and Form
If we thought that reality were changeable, fragile, and fleeting, would we take life more seriously or less seriously? This book contemplates the notion of hakanasa, the evanescence of all things, as understood by the Japanese. Their lived responses to this idea of impermanence have been various and even contradictory. Asceticism, fatalism, conformism. Hedonism, materialism, careerism. What this array of responses have in common are, first, a grounding in hakanasa, and, second, an emphasis on formality. Evanescence and Etiquette attempts to illuminate for the first time the ties between an epistemology of constant change and Japan's formal emphasis on etiquette and visuality.
