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Diversity And Knowledge In The Age Of Nation-Building: Space And Time In The Thought Of Yanagita Kunio, Takehiko Kojima
Diversity And Knowledge In The Age Of Nation-Building: Space And Time In The Thought Of Yanagita Kunio, Takehiko Kojima
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The study examines the thought of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), an influential Japanese nationalist thinker best known as a founder of the discipline of Japanese folklore (minzokugaku). The purpose of the study is to bring into light an unredeemed potential of his intellectual and political project as a critique of the way in which modern politics and knowledge systematically suppresses global diversity. The study reads his texts against the backdrop of the modern understanding of space and time and its political and moral implications and traces the historical evolution of his thought that culminates in the establishment of minzokugaku.
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