Title

Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan

Description

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.

Subject

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

Publisher

Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari

Date

2017

Identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-151-5

Type

Text

Format

PDF

Language

en

it

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134477

Relation

Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies 7

Rights

CC BY 4.0

Educational Level

Higher education | research

Interactivity Type

Expositive