Essays on Japan: Between Aesthetics and Literature (Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 35)

Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra's essays written in the past ten years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects. Marra is one of the leading scholars in the field of Japanese aesthetics and hermeneutics and has published extensively on medieval and early modern Japanese literature, thought, and the arts. This work will present the reader critical insight into the fields of Japanese aesthetics, literary hermeneutics, and literature, with essays on such texts and figures as Kuki Shūzō, The Tale of Genji, Motoori Norinaga, and Heidegger Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra's essays written in the past ten years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects. Marra is one of the leading scholars in the field of Japanese aesthetics and hermeneutics and has published extensively on medieval and early modern Japanese literature, thought, and the arts. This work will present the reader critical insight into the fields of Japanese aesthetics, literary hermeneutics, and literature, with essays on such texts and figures as Kuki Shuzo, The Tale of Genji, Moto Content: List of Original Publications Preface Aesthetics Chapter One Japanese Aesthetics in the World Chapter Two The Creation of the Vocabulary of Aesthetics in Meiji Japan Chapter Three Aesthetics: An Overview Chapter Four Japanese Aesthetics: The Construction of Meaning Chapter Five Japan's Missing Alternative: "Weak Thought" and the Hermeneutics of Slimness Chapter Six Coincidentia Oppositorium: The Greek Genealogies of Japan Chapter Seven Conrad Fiedler and the Aesthetics of the Kyoto School Chapter Eight On Japanese Things and Words: An Answer to Heidegger's Question.