What makes life worth living? : how Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds

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What makes life worth living? : how Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds

Gordon Mathews

University of California Press, c1996

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 257-269

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780520201323

内容説明

Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. In the course of exploring how people from these two cultures find meaning in their daily lives, he illuminates a vast and intriguing range of ideas about work and love, religion, creativity, and self-realisation. Mathews explores these topics by means of the Japanese term "ikigai", that which most makes one's life seem worth living. American English has no equivalent, but "ikigai" applies not only to Japanese lives but to American lives as well. Ikigai is what, day after day and year after year, each of us most essentially lives for. Through the life stories of those he interviews, Mathews analyses the ways Japanese and American lives have been affected by social roles and cultural vocabularies. As we approach the end of the century, the author's investigation into how the inhabitants of the world's two largest economic superpowers make sense of their lives brings a vital new understanding to our skeptical age.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520201330

内容説明

Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. In the course of exploring how people from these two cultures find meaning in their daily lives, he illuminates a vast and intriguing range of ideas about work and love, religion, creativity, and self-realization. Mathews explores these topics by means of the Japanese term ikigai, "that which most makes one's life seem worth living." American English has no equivalent, but ikigai applies not only to Japanese lives but to American lives as well. Ikigai is what, day after day and year after year, each of us most essentially lives for. Through the life stories of those he interviews, Mathews analyzes the ways Japanese and American lives have been affected by social roles and cultural vocabularies. As we approach the end of the century, the author's investigation into how the inhabitants of the world's two largest economic superpowers make sense of their lives brings a vital new understanding to our skeptical age.

目次

Preface Part One: The Cultural Foundations of Ikigai Introduction: What Makes Life Worth Living? 1. The Varieties of Ikigai in Japan 2. Individualism, Community, and Conformity in the United States 3* The Comparison of Japanese and American Selves Part Two: Ikigai in Japanese and American Lives 4* Ikigai in Work and Family Ikigai and Gender 5* Ikigai in Past and Future Ikigai and Dreatns 6. Ikigai in Creation and Religion Ikigai and Significance Part Three: Ikigai and the Meaning of Life 7* A Phenomenological Analysis of Ikigai 8. Ikigai and the Meaning of Life References Index

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