This book explores the Japanese notion of hakanasa - the evanescence of all things. Responses to this idea have been various and even contradictory: asceticism, fatalism, conformism, hedonism, materialism, and careerism. This book examines the ties between an epistemology of constant change and Japan's formal emphasis on etiquette and visuality. ÍNDICE: All Things Are Changing - Defining the Sacred - Flux and Identity - Leaving the World - Hedonism - Sacrifice - Fatalism - Work - Wrapping - Materialism - The Supremacy of Style - The Nature of Etiquette - Not One Space butMany - If There Were a Holy Book - Visual Nature - A World Where Nothing Is Special
- ISBN: 978-1-4039-6706-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 28/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés