Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Makes Life Worth Living?Condition: NewSubtitle: How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their WorldsISBN-10: 0520201337EAN: 9780520201330ISBN: 9780520201330Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/05/1996Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Gordon MathewsGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 1996 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Makes Life Worth Living?
Title: What Makes Life Worth Living?
Subtitle: How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds
ISBN-10: 0520201337
EAN: 9780520201330
ISBN: 9780520201330
Release Date: 04/05/1996
Release Year: 1996
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Makes Life Worth Living? : How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 1996
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, Self-Help
Author: Gordon Mathews
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
