Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Volume 6 | Edited book | Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan
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.
Keywords Female Desire • Memory • Hiroshima • Shiseikan • Corporeality • Cross-Gendered Performance • Haunting • Company-sponsored Funeral • Dogen • Ghosts • Lacan • Salvation • Identity Quest • Atomic Bomb • Biyanlu • Mugen noh • Nagasaki • Storytelling • Corpse • Body • Izutsu • Sony • Plato • Autopsy • Company’s Founder • Japan • Dark Tourism • Leo Tolstoy • Matsushita Denki • Vladimir Jankélévitch • England • Hijikata Tatsumi • Dōjōji • Death • Edgar Morin • Personhood • Rokugatsu no hebi • Shiga Naoya • Sociology • Unnatural • Acephale • Witness Literature • Mujō • Anti-Dance • Actor Network • Desire • Distance • Natural • Psychoanalysis • Literary Theory • Dream • Body and Object • Cinema • Eroticism • Shibusawa Tatsuhiko • Philosophy of Death • Coroners • Tsukamoto Shin’ya • Selfhood • Butō • Kinosaki nite
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Contents
Introduction
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ECF_book_56 |
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De Antoni Andrea |
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Raveri Massimo |
dc.title |
Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan. Representing, Practicing, Performing |
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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. |
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Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.14277/978-88-6969-151-5 |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
dc.issued |
2017-05-31 |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-150-8/ |
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2610-8976 |
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2610-9395 |
dc.identifier.isbn |
978-88-6969-150-8 |
dc.identifier.eisbn |
978-88-6969-151-5 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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with fulltext |
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open |
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yes |
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Acephale |
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Acephale |
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Actor Network |
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Actor Network |
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Anti-Dance |
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Anti-Dance |
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Atomic Bomb |
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Atomic Bomb |
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Autopsy |
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Autopsy |
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Biyanlu |
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Biyanlu |
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Body |
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Body |
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Body and Object |
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Body and Object |
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Butō |
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Butō |
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Cinema |
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Cinema |
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Company-sponsored Funeral |
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Company-sponsored Funeral |
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Company’s Founder |
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Company’s Founder |
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Coroners |
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Coroners |
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Corporeality |
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Corporeality |
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Corporeality |
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Corporeality |
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Corpse |
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Corpse |
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Cross-Gendered Performance |
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Cross-Gendered Performance |
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Dark Tourism |
dc.subject |
Dark Tourism |
dc.subject |
Death |
dc.subject |
Death |
dc.subject |
Death |
dc.subject |
Death |
dc.subject |
Death |
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Death |
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Death |
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Death |
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Desire |
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Desire |
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Distance |
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Distance |
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Dogen |
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Dogen |
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Dream |
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Dream |
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Dōjōji |
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Dōjōji |
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Edgar Morin |
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Edgar Morin |
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England |
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England |
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Eroticism |
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Eroticism |
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Eroticism |
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Eroticism |
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Female Desire |
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Female Desire |
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Ghosts |
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Ghosts |
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Haunting |
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Haunting |
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Hijikata Tatsumi |
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Hijikata Tatsumi |
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Hiroshima |
dc.subject |
Hiroshima |
dc.subject |
Identity Quest |
dc.subject |
Identity Quest |
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Izutsu |
dc.subject |
Izutsu |
dc.subject |
Japan |
dc.subject |
Japan |
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Kinosaki nite |
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Kinosaki nite |
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Lacan |
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Lacan |
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Literary Theory |
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Literary Theory |
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Matsushita Denki |
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Matsushita Denki |
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Memory |
dc.subject |
Memory |
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Mugen noh |
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Mugen noh |
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Mujō |
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Mujō |
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Nagasaki |
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Nagasaki |
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Natural |
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Natural |
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Personhood |
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Personhood |
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Philosophy of Death |
dc.subject |
Philosophy of Death |
dc.subject |
Plato |
dc.subject |
Plato |
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Psychoanalysis |
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Psychoanalysis |
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Rokugatsu no hebi |
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Rokugatsu no hebi |
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Salvation |
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Salvation |
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Selfhood |
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Selfhood |
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Shibusawa Tatsuhiko |
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Shibusawa Tatsuhiko |
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Shiga Naoya |
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Shiga Naoya |
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Shiseikan |
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Shiseikan |
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Sociology |
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Sociology |
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Sony |
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Sony |
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Storytelling |
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Storytelling |
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Tsukamoto Shin’ya |
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Tsukamoto Shin’ya |
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Unnatural |
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Unnatural |
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Vladimir Jankélévitch |
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Vladimir Jankélévitch |
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Witness Literature |
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Witness Literature |
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