Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_56
dc.creator	De Antoni Andrea
dc.creator	Raveri Massimo
dc.title	Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan. Representing, Practicing, Performing
dc.type	Edited book
dc.language.iso	it, en
dc.description.abstract	The title of this volume refers to the Buddhist concepts of suffering, impermanence and dependent origination, which link the ideas of Death and Desire. This book stems from a research conducted in the last few years at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, supported by the Japan Foundation. A great deal of work has been done by scholars in various disciplines about dying in Japan, but research has tended to focus on the practices through which death is settled and institutionalised. Yet, what about untamed and unsettled death? What about the cases in which death cannot be successfully coped with by ritual means? What happens if institutions and discourses are not enough to tame it? What about the cases in which unsettled death suddenly intrudes the social? What are the forms it takes and the consequences it has in the social? These are the questions that the volume addresses, by enmeshing representations, practices and performing arts, through contributions that rely on approaches from different disciplines. Each of them analyses one of the multiple and fragmented possibilities in which untamed death can tame the social.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/978-88-6969-151-5
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-05-31
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dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-150-8
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-151-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Acephale
dc.subject	Acephale
dc.subject	Actor Network
dc.subject	Actor Network
dc.subject	Anti-Dance
dc.subject	Anti-Dance
dc.subject	Atomic Bomb
dc.subject	Atomic Bomb
dc.subject	Autopsy
dc.subject	Autopsy
dc.subject	Biyanlu
dc.subject	Biyanlu
dc.subject	Body
dc.subject	Body
dc.subject	Body and Object
dc.subject	Body and Object
dc.subject	Butō
dc.subject	Butō
dc.subject	Cinema
dc.subject	Cinema
dc.subject	Company-sponsored Funeral
dc.subject	Company-sponsored Funeral
dc.subject	Company’s Founder
dc.subject	Company’s Founder
dc.subject	Coroners
dc.subject	Coroners
dc.subject	Corporeality
dc.subject	Corporeality
dc.subject	Corporeality
dc.subject	Corporeality
dc.subject	Corpse
dc.subject	Corpse
dc.subject	Cross-Gendered Performance
dc.subject	Cross-Gendered Performance
dc.subject	Dark Tourism
dc.subject	Dark Tourism
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Desire
dc.subject	Desire
dc.subject	Distance
dc.subject	Distance
dc.subject	Dogen
dc.subject	Dogen
dc.subject	Dream
dc.subject	Dream
dc.subject	Dōjōji
dc.subject	Dōjōji
dc.subject	Edgar Morin
dc.subject	Edgar Morin
dc.subject	England
dc.subject	England
dc.subject	Eroticism
dc.subject	Eroticism
dc.subject	Eroticism
dc.subject	Eroticism
dc.subject	Female Desire
dc.subject	Female Desire
dc.subject	Ghosts
dc.subject	Ghosts
dc.subject	Haunting
dc.subject	Haunting
dc.subject	Hijikata Tatsumi
dc.subject	Hijikata Tatsumi
dc.subject	Hiroshima
dc.subject	Hiroshima
dc.subject	Identity Quest
dc.subject	Identity Quest
dc.subject	Izutsu
dc.subject	Izutsu
dc.subject	Japan
dc.subject	Japan
dc.subject	Kinosaki nite
dc.subject	Kinosaki nite
dc.subject	Lacan
dc.subject	Lacan
dc.subject	Leo Tolstoy
dc.subject	Leo Tolstoy
dc.subject	Literary Theory
dc.subject	Literary Theory
dc.subject	Matsushita Denki
dc.subject	Matsushita Denki
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Mugen noh
dc.subject	Mugen noh
dc.subject	Mujō
dc.subject	Mujō
dc.subject	Nagasaki
dc.subject	Nagasaki
dc.subject	Natural
dc.subject	Natural
dc.subject	Personhood
dc.subject	Personhood
dc.subject	Philosophy of Death
dc.subject	Philosophy of Death
dc.subject	Plato
dc.subject	Plato
dc.subject	Psychoanalysis
dc.subject	Psychoanalysis
dc.subject	Rokugatsu no hebi
dc.subject	Rokugatsu no hebi
dc.subject	Salvation
dc.subject	Salvation
dc.subject	Selfhood
dc.subject	Selfhood
dc.subject	Shibusawa Tatsuhiko
dc.subject	Shibusawa Tatsuhiko
dc.subject	Shiga Naoya
dc.subject	Shiga Naoya
dc.subject	Shiseikan
dc.subject	Shiseikan
dc.subject	Sociology
dc.subject	Sociology
dc.subject	Sony
dc.subject	Sony
dc.subject	Storytelling
dc.subject	Storytelling
dc.subject	Tsukamoto Shin’ya
dc.subject	Tsukamoto Shin’ya
dc.subject	Unnatural
dc.subject	Unnatural
dc.subject	Vladimir Jankélévitch
dc.subject	Vladimir Jankélévitch
dc.subject	Witness Literature
dc.subject	Witness Literature

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Representing, Practicing, Performing

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Andrea De Antoni Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Massimo Raveri Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

The title of this volume refers to the Buddhist concepts of suffering, impermanence and dependent origination, which link the ideas of Death and Desire. This book stems from a research conducted in the last few years at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, supported by the Japan Foundation. A great deal of work has been done by scholars in various disciplines about dying in Japan, but research has tended to focus on the practices through which death is settled and institutionalised. Yet, what about untamed and unsettled death? What about the cases in which death cannot be successfully coped with by ritual means? What happens if institutions and discourses are not enough to tame it? What about the cases in which unsettled death suddenly intrudes the social? What are the forms it takes and the consequences it has in the social? These are the questions that the volume addresses, by enmeshing representations, practices and performing arts, through contributions that rely on approaches from different disciplines. Each of them analyses one of the multiple and fragmented possibilities in which untamed death can tame the social.

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May 31, 2017

Language

IT, EN

ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-150-8

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-151-5

Keywords

Literary Theory • Company-sponsored Funeral • Dōjōji • Female Desire • Haunting • Vladimir Jankélévitch • Personhood • Autopsy • Lacan • Memory • Company’s Founder • Kinosaki nite • Selfhood • Body and Object • Hijikata Tatsumi • Dogen • Actor Network • Salvation • Eroticism • Japan • Tsukamoto Shin’ya • Corporeality • England • Atomic Bomb • Nagasaki • Plato • Corpse • Philosophy of Death • Identity Quest • Cinema • Dark Tourism • Sociology • Distance • Shiseikan • Storytelling • Witness Literature • Desire • Anti-Dance • Acephale • Mujō • Psychoanalysis • Unnatural • Coroners • Hiroshima • Shibusawa Tatsuhiko • Leo Tolstoy • Matsushita Denki • Rokugatsu no hebi • Shiga Naoya • Body • Edgar Morin • Mugen noh • Sony • Natural • Biyanlu • Izutsu • Cross-Gendered Performance • Butō • Ghosts • Dream • Death

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