Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism

by Harry Harootunian

This kind of reading differs from more conventionalized Japanese practice, which seeks either to reduce kokugaku to ideological complicity or to establish its unity and coherence, to repair any inconsistencies by referring to the author's philosophy or by inserting the writers of the texts into the contemporary context.

Genres: Japan, Japanese History

494 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1988

Reviews

[Alice Jennings · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its a very good book, Harootunian is a fantastic historian with original ideas, however he is the WORST writer I have ever seen. You'll get a lot out of it, but reading this was a very slow and painful process. You'll have to read everything about 3 times, and even then you wont quite get it. And he loves the word 'discourse', though he doesn't always use it in the right way

[Jessica Zu · Rating 4 out of 5]

only read intro and epilogue, will revisit this book later ... tons of required readings to deal with, I can only diverge a little ...