Things Seen and Unseen

by Harootunian, H. D.

• ISBN13: 9780226317076
• ISBN10: 0226317072
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

This long-awaited work explores the place ofkokugaku(rendered here as "nativism") during Japan's Tokugawa period.Kokugaku, the sense of a distinct and sacred Japanese identity, appeared in the eighteenth century in reaction to the pervasive influence of Chinese culture on Japan. Against this influence, nativists sought a Japanese sense of difference grounded in folk tradition, agricultural values, and ancient Japanese religion. H. D. Harootunian treats nativism as a discourse and shows how it functioned ideologically in Tokugawa Japan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue: Historians' Discourse and the Problem of Nativism

Discourse/Ideology: Language/Labor

The Language of Ideology

The Problematic of Discourse

The Ideology of Language

Archaism

The Origin of Discourse Language and the Question of Form and Content

The Poetry of Things Inventing the Daily Life

Archaism

The Discourse on Origins

The Politics of Poetics

The Prose of the World

The Chronotope of Collective Time

Routinizing the Ancient Way Religion and the Problem of Routinization Sender and Receiver: Constituting a Subject for Discourse Message: The Work of Worship

Ruralization

Figure and Fulfillment Historical Conjuncture Classifying the Cosmos

The Rhetoric of Place: Shrine and Village Cosmologizing Agriculture: The Origins of Wealth The Worship of Work

Ruralization

Act and Authority Authority for Action Entrustment and Enabling Embodying Habitus Part for Whole

Knowledge, Interest, and the Cultural Order Hermeneutics and History "Learning the Customs of Folk" Poetic Knowledge and Politics

Accomplices of Restoration Figures of Restoration Between Religion and Polity

The Community of Silence Epilogue: Native Knowledge and the Production of a Modern "Japanese Ideology"

Notes Index

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