Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World - Couverture rigide

Goto-Jones, Chris

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107076595 ISBN 13 : 9781107076594

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

This book charts the history of modern magic across India, China and Japan, analyzing representations in the cultural imagination of the West.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Chris Goto-Jones was educated at the Universities of Cambridge, Keio, and Oxford. He is the Inaugural Chair Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Political Thought at Universiteit Leiden, Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Modern Japan Studies, Director of the Modern East Asia Research Centre, Leiden, and Founding Dean of Leiden University College, The Hague. In addition, he is an Associate of the Inner Magic Circle. He is co-founder of the 'Political and Philosophical Arts Initiative' and a 'VICI' laureate of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He has published widely in the fields of political thought, comparative philosophy, and Asian studies; in terms of popularizing publications, he is author of A Very Short Introduction to Modern Japan (2009), which has been translated into many languages worldwide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107076595
• ISBN 13: 9781107076594
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible