Showing Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics by Leslie Pincus

Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan Focuses on the work of Kuki Shuzo, a philosopher and the author of the classic "'Iki' no Kozo", to explore culture and theory in Japan during the interwar years. This title shows how Japanese intellectual culture ultimately became complicit, even instrumental, in a repressive and militaristic regime that ultimately brought the world to war. Full description