The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
Légitimités, légitimations
La construction de l'autorité au Japon
Collection : Études thématiques
Collection's number: 16
Editor: Lachaud (François), Bouchy (Anne), Carré (Guillaume)
Edition: EFEO
Publication date: 2005
Status : Available
45,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855396521
ISSN : 1269-8067
Width : 18,5 cm
Height : 27,5 cm
Weight : 0,9 kg
Number of pages : 320
Distributor : EFEO Diffusion
Geography : Japan
Language : French
Place : Paris
Support : Papier
Abstract
This volume brings together contributions by Japanese and Western scholars in the social sciences – religious studies, ethnology, economics, history, political philosophy – on issues related to legitimacy and legitimization processes in Japan, from the medieval period up to modern times. Legitimacy, according to the French historian Pierre Legendre, is “ the power upon which power is built”, yet classical Western definitions of the world may not apply in the same way in East Asian societies. How far were Japanese conceptions of legitimacy shaped by Chinese categories and notions? Is there a specific definition of legitimacy in Japan? How was religious legitimacy defined among competing denominations and movements? How far does this legacy still inform modern constructions of legitimacy in Japan? This volume is a first attempt at a general survey of Japanese conceptions of legitimacy and of their implications in the shaping of Japanese society.
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Études thématiques
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About the editor
Lachaud (François)
François Lachaud is Professor of Japanese studies at the French School of Asian Studies (EFEO) since 2000. His interests include art history, Japanese Buddhism, and diplomatic and cultural exchanges in East Asia during the premodern and modern eras (17th–19th century). He is the author of La Jeune fille et la Mort (IHEJ, 2006), Le Vieil Homme qui vendait du thé (Cerf, 2010), and editor of several edited volumes: Légitimités, légitimations : la construction de l’autorité au Japon (EFEO, 2005); Distant Empires: Europe and Japan (16th–19th Centuries) (EFEO, 2010); Jizō, divinité japonaise (Talmart, 2012); and Empires on the Move: Encounters between China and the West in the Early Modern Era (16th–19th Centuries) (EFEO 2017). He has been involved in the organisation of several exhibitions, including Yôkai : bestiaire du fantastique japonais (Paris, MCJP, 2005), Destination Japon : sur les pas de Guimet et Claudel (Lyon, Muséum, 2005), Kiyochika: Master of the Night (Washington DC, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2014), and Kunihiko Moriguchi : vers un ordre caché (Paris, MCJP, 2016).
