Imperial genus : the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan

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Imperial genus : the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan

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the formation and limits of the human in modern Korea and Japan

Statement of responsibility

Travis Workman

Creator

• Workman, Travis, 1979-

Author

• Workman, Travis, 1979-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Cultural policy
• Essentialism (Philosophy)
• Essentialism (Philosophy)
• History
• Japan
• Japan -- Cultural policy | History -- 20th century
• Japan -- Politics and government -- 1912-1945
• Japanese Occupation of Korea (1910-1945)
• Japanese literature
• Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Korea
• Korea -- Colonial influence
• Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945
• Korean literature
• Korean literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Politics and government
• 1900 - 1999
• Colonial influence

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Asia Pacific modern, 14

Cataloging source

CU-S/DLC

Dewey number

951.9/03

Illustrations

• illustrations
• facsimiles

Index

index present

LC call number

DS916.54

LC item number

.W67 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Asia Pacific modern

Series volume

14