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Civilization And Monsters - Spirits Of Modernity In Meiji Japan

by Gerald Figal

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 Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity-that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912).After discussing the role of the fantastic in everyday Japan at the eve of the Meiji period, Figal draws new connections between folklorists, writers, educators, state ideologues, and policymakers, all of whom crossed paths in a contest over supernatural terrain. He shows the ways in which a determined Meiji state was engaged in a battle to suppress, denigrate, manipulate, or reincorporate folk belief as part of an effort toward the consolidation of a modern national culture. Modern medicine and education, functioning as a means for the state to exercise its power, redefined folk practices as a source of evil. Diverse local spirits were supplanted by a new Japanese Spirit, embodied by the newly constituted emperor, the supernatural source of the nation's strength. The monsters of folklore were identified, catalogued, and characterized according to a new regime of modern reason. But whether engaged to support state power and forge a national citizenry or to critique the arbitrary nature of that power, the fantastic, as Figal maintains, is the constant condition of Japanese modernity in all its contradictions. Furthermore, he argues, modernity in general is born of fantasy in ways that have scarcely been recognized.Bringing unexplored and provocative new ideas to the Japan specialist, Civilization and Monsters will also appeal to readers concerned with issues of modernity in general.
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Ontology Of Production - Three Essays

by William Nishida Kitaro

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 Ontology of Production presents three essays by the influential Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), translated for the first time into English by William Haver. While previous translations of his writings have framed Nishida within Asian or Oriental philosophical traditions, Haver's introduction and approach to the texts rightly situate the work within Nishida's own commitment to Western philosophy. In particular, Haver focuses on Nishida's sustained and rigorous engagement with Marx's conception of production.Agreeing with Marx that ontology is production and production is ontology, Nishida in these three essays-"Expressive Activity" (1925), "The Standpoint of Active Intuition" (1935), and "Human Being" (1938)-addresses sense and reason, language and thought, intuition and appropriation, ultimately arguing that in this concept of production, ideality and materiality are neither mutually exclusive nor oppositional but, rather, coimmanent. Nishida's forceful articulation of the radical nature of Marx's theory of production is, Haver contends, particularly timely in today's speculation-driven global economy. Nishida's reading of Marx, which points to the inseparability of immaterial intellectual labor and material manual labor, provokes a reconsideration of Marxism's utility for making sense of-and resisting-the logic of contemporary capitalism.
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Money, Trains, And Guillotines - Art And Revolution In 1960s Japan

by William Marotti

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 During the 1960s, a group of artists challenged the status quo in Japan through interventionist art. William Mariotti situates the artists in relation to postwar Japan and the international activism of the 1960s.
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Policing Chinese Politics - A History

by Michael Dutton

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 At once a history of policing in China, as well as a political history of "the nation" in the 20th century.
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Great Enterprise - Sovereignty And Historiography In Modern Korea

by Henry Em

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 In The Great Enterprise, Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations of Korea's past. The goal of Korea attaining validity and equal standing among sovereign nations, Em shows, was foundational to modern Korean politics in that it served a pedagogical function for Japanese and Western imperialisms, as well as for Korean nationalism. Sovereignty thus functioned as police power and political power in shaping Korea's modernity, including anticolonial and postcolonial movements toward a radically democratic politics.Surveying historical works written over the course of the twentieth century, Em elucidates the influence of Christian missionaries, as well as the role that Japan's colonial policy played in determining the narrative framework for defining Korea's national past. Em goes on to analyze postcolonial works in which South Korean historians promoted national narratives appropriate for South Korea's place in the U.S.-led Cold War system. Throughout, Em highlights equal sovereignty's creative and productive potential to generate oppositional subjectivities and vital political alternatives.
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Youth Held At The Border - Immigration, Education And The Politics Of Inclusion

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 Using a combination of engaging narrative and rigorous analysis, this book explores how immigrant youth are included in, and excluded from, various sectors of American society, including education. With an intimate storytelling style, the author invites readers to rethink assumptions about immigrant youth and what their often liminal positions reveal about the politics of inclusion in America.
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Understanding Student Rights In Schools - Speech, Religion And Privacy In Educational Settings

by Bryan R. Warnick

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 Examines how student rights in three areasâ€"free speech, privacy, and religious expressionâ€"have been addressed in policy, ethics, and the law. Warnick develops an education criterion that schools can use when facing difficult questions of student rights. Both probing and practical, Warnick explains how student rights can be properly understood and protected.
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Women On The Verge - Japanese Women, Western Dreams

by Karen Kelsky

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 Shows how female cosmopolitanism re-contextualises the well-known Western male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents, narrating their own desires for the "modern" West in ways that seem to defy Japanese nationalism as well as long-standing relations of power not only between men and women but between Japan and the West.
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A Primer For Teaching World History - Ten Design Principles

by Antoinette Burton

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 Offers principles to consider when creating a world history syllabus; and prompts a teacher, rather than aiming for full world coverage, to pick an interpretive focus and thread it through the course.
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Education And Democracy In The 21st Century

by Nel Noddings

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Keep Them Reading - An Anti-Censorship Handbook For Educators

by Gloria Pipkin e Releah Cossett Lent

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Real World Writing For Secondary Students - Teaching The College Admission Essay And Other Gate-Openers For Higher Education

by Jessica Singer Early e Meredith Decosta

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The Wrong Kind Of Different - Challenging The Meaning Of Diversity In American Classrooms

by Antonia Randolph

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Coexistence - Economic Challenge And Response

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After The Dance - 60 Real Life Tips To Help You Create A Healthy And Happy Marriage

by Lisa L. Evans

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What Counts Most Is How You Finish - Thoughts On Living Life To The Fullest

by Shelia Payton

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What Counts Most Is How You Finish - Thoughts On Living Life To The Fullest

by Shelia Payton

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The Parable Of The Hand And The Glove - A Spiritual Awakening

by Allen Smithson

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A Forgetful Nation - On Immigration And Cultural Identity In The United States

by Ali Behdad

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 Takes on an idea central to American national mythology that the US is 'a nation of immigrants', open-armed and welcoming to foreigners. This work argues that Americans' treatment of immigrants and foreigners has long fluctuated between hospitality and hostility and that this ambivalence is fundamental to the construction of US national identity.
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Working The Boundaries - Race, Space, And "Illegality" In Mexican Chicago

by Nicholas De Genova

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 An ethnographic study of transnational migration, racialization, labor subordination, and citizenship in Chicago's Mexican migrant community
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Alone Before God - The Religious Origins Of Modernity In Mexico

by Pamela Voekel

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 Posits an underlying religious impetus for modernity in Mexico, claiming that the Catholic Church nursed a reform movement that ultimately affected many of the same changes as the Protestant Reformation.
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The Other Side Of The Popular - Neoliberalism And Subalternity In Latin America

by Gareth Williams

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 Focusing on the close relationship between complex cultural shifts and the development of the neoliberal nation-state, this title argues that the modern Latin American nation was built upon the idea of 'the people', a citizenry with common interests transcending demographic and cultural differences.
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Uncovering Heian Japan - An Archaeology Of Sensation And Inscription

by Thomas Lamarre

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 The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This title argues that this need for a cultural unity has resulted in an overemphasis of a relatively minor aspect of Heian poetry, obscuring the porousness of Heian society and the politics of poetic expression.
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Memory Bytes - History, Technology, And Digital Culture

by Abraham Geil

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 Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. This book argues for the need to understand digital culture - and its social, political, and ethical ramifications - in historical and philosophical context.
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