Evanescence and Form: An Introduction to Japanese Culture
Palgrave Macmillan | 2008 | ISBN: 1403967059 | 288 pages | PDF | 2,4 MB
If we thought that reality were changeable, fragile, and fleeting, would we take life more seriously or less seriously? This book contemplates the notion of hakanasa, the evanescence of all things, as understood by the Japanese. Their lived responses to this idea of impermanence have been various and even contradictory. Asceticism, fatalism, conformism.
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