Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan

"Imperial 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...

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Hoofdauteur: Workman, Travis
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description "Imperial 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 uncertainty 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 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."
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-387172025-07-29T21:47:31Z Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan Workman, Travis korean history japanese occupation korean literature colonial korea imperial japan essentialism Anthropology Empire of Japan Multiculturalism Proletariat thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general "Imperial 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 uncertainty 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 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." 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-02-12 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:20:55Z 2016 book 602284 OCN: 932330186 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32856 9780520964198 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38717 eng Asia Pacific Modern open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32856/1/602284.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32856/1/602284.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32856/1/602284.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32856/1/602284.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32856/1/602284.pdf University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.9 10.1525/luminos.9 19856893-4bf2-4e3e-9137-c7692d64e4c1 9780520964198 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 322 Oakland, California open access
spellingShingle korean history
japanese occupation
korean literature
colonial korea
imperial japan
essentialism
Anthropology
Empire of Japan
Multiculturalism
Proletariat
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Workman, Travis
Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
title Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
title_full Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
title_fullStr Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
title_full_unstemmed Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
title_short Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
title_sort imperial genus the formation and limits of the human in modern korea and japan
topic korean history
japanese occupation
korean literature
colonial korea
imperial japan
essentialism
Anthropology
Empire of Japan
Multiculturalism
Proletariat
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
topic_facet korean history
japanese occupation
korean literature
colonial korea
imperial japan
essentialism
Anthropology
Empire of Japan
Multiculturalism
Proletariat
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
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