Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives Book

	Introduction: From "The Beautiful" to "The Dubious": Japanese Traditionalism, Modernism, Postmodernism
	Acknowledgments
1	Derrida and the Decentered Universe of Ch'an/Zen Buddhism	1
2	Ie-ism ("Sacred Familism") and the Discourse of Postmodernism in Relation to Nativism/Nationalism/Nihonism	25
3	Intervals (Ma) in Space and Time: Foundations for a Religio-Aesthetic Paradigm in Japan	55
4	Lyricism and Intertextuality: An Approach to Shunzei's Poetics	81
5	A Methodological Examination of the "Post-Confucian Thesis" in Relation to Japanese (and Chinese) Economic Development	95
6	The Murky Mirror: Women and Sexual Ethics as Reflected in Japanese Cinema	121
7	The Intertextual Fabric of Narratives by Enchi Fumiko	169
8	Tradition, Textuality, and the Trans-lation of Philosophy: The Case of Japan	225
9	The Kyoto School and Reverse Orientalism	245
10	Tradition Beyond Modernity: Nishitani's Response to the Twentieth Century	283
11	Critical Reflections on the Traditional Japanese View of Truth	297
12	Japan, the Dubious, and Myself	313
	Contributors	327
	Index	331