Imperial genus the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan
"Ímperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2016, [2016]©2016
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| Series: | Asia Pacific modern
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "Ímperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how notions of human generality mediated uncertainly between the transcendental and the empirical, the universal and the particular, and empire and colony. It shows how cosmopolitan cultural principles, the proletarian arts, and Pan-Asian imperial nationalism converged with practices of colonial governmentality. It is both a genealogy of the various articulations of the human's genus-being within modern humanist thinking in East Asia, as well as an exploration of the limits of the human as both concept and historical figure."--Provided by publisher |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (x, 307 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0520289595 9780520289598 |