Brian J McVeigh

Gebundenes Buch

State Bearing Gifts

Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education

Beschreibung

Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture of legitimacy.

Autor

Brian J. McVeigh has an MA and a PhD in anthropology from Princeton University, as well as an MS in counseling. He is interested in how the human mind adapts, both through history and psychotherapeutically. Inspired by and using the theories of Julian Jaynes as a theoretical framework, he has published 16 books on the history of Japanese psychology, the origins of religions, the Bible, spirit possession, art and popular culture, linguistics, nationalism, and changing definitions of self, time, and space. He has lived and worked in Japan and China for many years, taught at the University of Arizona for ten years, and now works in private practice as a licensed mental health counselor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780739113448
• ISBN-10: 0739113445
• Artikelnr.: 22325586