Evanescence and Form: An Introduction to Japanese Culture

by Charles Shiro Inouye

Book Overview

This book explores the Japanese notion of hakanasa - the evanescence of all things. Responses to this idea have been various and even contradictory: asceticism, fatalism, conformism, hedonism, materialism, and careerism. This book examines the ties between an epistemology of constant change and Japan's formal emphasis on etiquette and visuality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403967067
• ISBN13: 9781403967060
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"