Peter Flueckiger: 1 book
Imagining Harmony
Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Many intellectuals in eighteenth-century Japan valued classical poetry in either Chinese or Japanese for its expression of unadulterated human sentiments. They also saw such poetry as a distillation of the language and aesthetic values of ancient China and Japan, which offered models of the good government...
