Seeking the Self and Sacred And The Profane

Seeking the Self

Name: Seeking the Self
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Author: Satomi Ishikawa
ISBN: 9783039108749

Individualism and Popular Culture in Japan

by Satomi Ishikawa

Hardback
253 pages
Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
16.3 x 23.1 x 1.4 cm

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This book is about the self in contemporary Japan. In contrast to Euro-American cultures, in which the self is considered to be the essence of personhood, in Japanese culture the self is constantly reconstructed in relations to others. This particular self is studied by examining the ways popular culture is consumed, with a special focus on manga, the Japanese word for comics and cartoons. The first part of the book contains an ethnographic research in which the author investigates the relationship between popular media and the search for self-knowledge. In the second part a historical analysis traces the development of self-seeking in Japan since the country's modernisation period.