Naoki Sakai is associate professor of Japanese literature and history at Cornell University.

An excursion across the boundaries of language and culture, this provocative book suggests that national identity and cultural politics are, in fact, “all in the translation.” Translation, we tend to think, represents another language in all its integrity and unity. Naoki Sakai turns this thinking on its head, and shows how this unity of language really only exists in our manne...(展开全部)

At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of David Hume's philosophy, the work is invaluable for understanding the progress of Deleuze's thought.

The first major study in over three decades to explore the essential arguments of all the major theoretical interpretations of nationalism, from the modernist approaches of Gellner, Nairn, Breuilly, Giddens and Hobsbawm to the alternative paradigms of van den Bergh and Geertz, Armstrong and Smith himself. In a style accessible to the student and the general reader Smith traces ...(展开全部)

Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet it is surprisingly little studied and only imperfectly understood, either by its adherents or its opponents. Its irruption into the modern world is often explained as a resurgence of primitive, atavistic instincts, or as a delusion fostered by a few theoreticians, politicians or propagandists. The present v...(展开全部)

Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet it is surprisingly little studied and only imperfectly understood, either by its adherents or its opponents. Its irruption into the modern world is often explained as a resurgence of primitive, atavistic instincts, or as a delusion fostered by a few theoreticians, politicians or propagandists. The present v...(展开全部)

1948年、富山県に生まれる。1977年、京都大学大学院社会学博士課程修了。現在、ウィメンズアクションネットワーク(WAN)理事長、東京大学名誉教授(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)

1948年、富山県に生まれる。1977年、京都大学大学院社会学博士課程修了。現在、ウィメンズアクションネットワーク(WAN)理事長、東京大学名誉教授(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)

In Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) Julia C. Schneider give an analys is of nationalist and historiographical discourses among late imperial and early republican Chinese thinkers. She particularly researches their approaches towards non-Chinese people within the Qing Empire and the question on how to integrate th...(展开全部)

Nonviolent state behavior in Japan, this book argues, results from the distinctive breadth with which the Japanese define security policy, making it inseparable from the quest for social stability through economic growth. While much of the literature on contemporary Japan has resisted emphasis on cultural uniqueness, Peter J. Katzenstein seeks to explain particular aspects of J...(展开全部)