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Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Lit
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Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of
feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as
a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest
literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical significance
has been thoroughly acknowledged. As a work focused on the
complexities of Japanese court life in the Heian period, however,
the The Tale of Genji has never before been the subject of
philosophical investigation. The essays in this volume address this
oversight, arguing that the work contains much that lends itself to
philosophical analysis. The authors of this volume demonstrate that
The Tale of Genji confronts universal themes such as the nature and
exercise of political power, freedom, individual autonomy and
agency, renunciation, gender, and self-expression; it raises deep
concerns about aesthetics and the role of art, causality, the
relation of man to nature, memory, and death itself. Although
Murasaki Shikibu may not express these themes in the text as
explicitly philosophical problems, the complex psychological
tensions she describes and her observations about human conduct
reveal an underlying framework of philosophical assumptions about
the world of the novel that have implications for how we understand
these concerns beyond the world of Genji. Each essay in this
collection reveals a part of this framework, situating individual
themes within larger philosophical and historical contexts. In
doing so, the essays both challenge prevailing views of the novel
and each other, offering a range of philosophical interpretations
of the text and emphasizing the The Tale of Genji's place as a
masterful work of literature with broad philosophical significance.
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