The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan - Rilegato

Ikegami, Eiko

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0674868080 ISBN 13: 9780674868083

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

This book demonstrates how Japan's so-called harmonious collective culture is paradoxically connected with a history of conflict. Ikegami contends that contemporary Japanese culture is based upon two remarkably complementary ingredients, honorable competition and honorable collaboration. The historical roots of this situation can be found in the process of state formation, along very different lines from that seen in Europe at around the same time. The solution that emerged out of the turbulent beginnings of the Tokugawa state was a transformation of the samurai into a hereditary class of vassal-bureaucrats, a solution that would have many unexpected ramifications for subsequent centuries.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Eiko Ikegami is Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0674868080
• ISBN 13: 9780674868083
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 440