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Individuality in Early Modern Japan - Thinking for Oneself (Paperback)
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Individuality in Early Modern Japan - Thinking for Oneself (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Two of the most commonly alleged features of Japanese society are
its homogeneity and its encouragement of conformity, as represented
by the saying that the nail that sticks up gets pounded. This
volume's primary goal is to challenge these and a number of other
long-standing assumptions regarding Tokugawa (1600-1868) society,
and thereby to open a dialogue regarding the relationship between
the Japan of two centuries ago and the present. The volume's
central chapters concentrate on six aspects of Tokugawa society:
the construction of individual identity, aggressive pursuit of
self-interest, defiant practice of forbidden religious traditions,
interest in self-cultivation and personal betterment,
understandings of happiness and well-being, and embrace of
"neglected" counter-ideological values. The author argues that when
taken together, these point to far higher degrees of individuality
in early modern Japan than has heretofore been acknowledged, and in
an Afterword the author briefly examines how these indicators of
individuality in early modern Japan are faring in contemporary
Japan at the time of writing.
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