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Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan Volume 14

Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan Volume 14

Workman, Travis

Paperback

Series: Asia Pacific Modern, Book 14

Japanese HistoryKorean History

ISBN10: 0520289595
ISBN13: 9780520289598
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Nov 30 2015
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

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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