Naoki Sakai
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 132047 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Naoki Sakai |
| NOMBRES | Naoki |
| APELLIDO | Sakai |
| FIRMA | SAKAI N |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8544-1187 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Beyond the Untranslatable
The modern international world
This article focuses on the individuality of language. How can language be individuated, grasped as an indivisible unity, and compared to other languages that are also assumed to be individual unities? I will attempt a historical investigation concerning the individuality of language on the one hand, and the formation of the modern international world in which individuated languages are supposed to be juxtaposed to one another. The translation is…
Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana
"This book critically analyzes the global hegemony of the United States - a hegemony whose innovative aspect consists in articulating postcoloniality to imperial control - in relation to knowledge and knowledge production. Through targeted case studies on the historical relationship between regional areas and the United States, the authors explore possibilities and obstacles to epistemic decolonization. By highlighting the connection between the …
Der Ort von Vergleich und Transnationalität. Ein Plädoyer für vergleichende Geisteswissenschaften
The End of Pax Americana
In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori, or “reclusive withdrawal”—Japan’s incr…
‘‘You Asians’’
Voices of the Past
Intellectual historians, specialists in Japanese culture, anthropologists working with historical texts, literary theorists, linguists, philosophers, and others interested in East Asian thought will welcome this rich and challenging book
The End of Area
A Genealogy
The Regime of Separation and the Performativity of Area
It is sometimes claimed that area studies is not independent of the racism that characterizes the modern world. This article attempts to examine this claimed association between area studies and racism. But what sort of configuration of social positions and social dynamics do we suggest by racism in the production of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences? Above all else, racism must be apprehended as a structure of the modern world, and…
Aesthetic regimes and artistic interventions
The West and the Tropics of Area Studies
Both Asia and Latin America are regarded as areas in the disciplines of area studies. What must be called into question is the assumption that these areas are primarily geographic designations. This paper investigates in what sense the “area” of area studies connotes a geographic location and how it is differentiated from other terms such as territory. It discusses the history of the modern international world in which the world has been bifurcat…
Postscript
In the last seven decades since the end of the World War II, we have witnessed the collapse of a number of polities customarily described as dictatorships. Those of us who live in countries dominated by some amalgamation of consumer-oriented capitalism and parliamentary representative governments are accustomed to view the autocratic forms of state sovereignty, often referred to as dictatorships, to be the antonym of political liberalism. Consequ…
The Trans-Pacific Imagination
Introduction
A Relentlessly Productive Venue”
Rebecca Karl, Tom Lamarre, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Naoki Sakai, Jesook Song, and Angela Zito interview Senior Editor Tani Barlow, posing a series of question on history, politics, confiict, Cold War scholarship, and the struggle over so-called area studies. Topics raised and considered include the history of the journal's founding, critical reminiscence of the project's early years of publications and intellectual politics, historical …
Positions and Positionalities
In characterizing one of the extraordinary achievements of positions: east asia cultures critique, one cannot overestimate a political investment gradually constituted, wittingly or unwittingly, throughout the career of the periodical by the editorial team to counteract the implicit separation between the West and Asia, a regime of what Johannes Fabian called “the denial of coevalness” that insists on two different temporalities in which area spe…
The Trans-Pacific Imagination
Introduction National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant in US Empire after September 11 Trans-Pacific Studies and US - Japan Complicity Re-Imagining the Space of East Asia - from Empire to Cold War and Beyond The Political Formation of the Homoerotics and the Cold War: Battle of the Gazes at and from Okinawa Transnationality of the Victimhood Nationalism Making Sense of East Asia: From China's Point of View East Asia as an Objective of an Inte…
Le genre, enjeu politique et langage du nationalisme postcolonial japonais
Le nationalisme japonais se manifeste dans la négation collective des faits historiques et de la culpabilité coloniale, en particulier par rapport aux pays d’Asie et d’Asie de l’Est. La question des ‘femmes de réconfort’ ( comfort women ) de la période de guerre — l’institution d’esclavage sexuel établie pendant la guerre en Asie et dans le Pacifique par le Gouvernement japonais, qui força de nombreuses femmes des colonies japonaises et des terri…
On Romantic Love And Military Violence
This chapter examines the historical, political, and philosophical intimacies between Japanese and U.S. imperial projects. More specifically, it explores how the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized—which is mediated through the threat and use of military violence—is narrativized and practiced in heterosexualized terms. It considers how the underlying and constant threat of violence along with the imminent threat of rape is repres…
From area studies toward transnational studies
Theory and Asian humanity
What can an Asian theory be? Is the question a blatant oxymoron, or some intellectual anomaly? What is at stake in this enquiry is not the character of Asia at all. On the contrary, what makes the pairing of Asia and theory somewhat strange is our presumption that theory is something we normally expect of Europe or the West. (Europe and the West must be differentiated historically and geopolitically, but for reasons of space the two designations …
Imperial Nationalism and the Comparative Perspective
The transpacific relationship between the United States and Japan has been analyzed, discussed, and diagnosed ever since the U.S. occupation of Japan. Despite the variety and wealth of scholarship on this topic, however, the dearth of comparative studies with respect to fascistic and imperialistic formations in the two countries is striking. This article investigates the formation of Japanese area studies in the United States in view of transpaci…
Traduction, biopolitique et différence coloniale
Abbassides Dynastie d’origine arabe, issue de la famille de Muhammad, mais largement soutenue par le monde iranien. Elle régna sur le califat entre 750 et 1258 après avoir détrôné les Omeyyades. Esclavons Traduction de l’arabe Saqaliba, ce terme désigne les Slaves utilisés comme esclaves qui, une fois convertis, pouvaient occuper des positions de confiance, voire de pouvoir. Fatimides Dynastie d’origine arabe, pratiquant l’islam chiite, ayant rég…
Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference (Traces 4)
Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference, the fourth book in the Traces series, focuses on the problems of translation and the political dynamics surrounding multiplicity — linguistic, regional, transnational, and civilizational — today. The international group of authors deal, both theoretically and empirically, with the historical obstacles and future opportunities offered by an emerging global order that is still struggling with the legac…
“You Asians”
Translation
Translation is an act of articulation that takes place in the social topos of difference or incommensurability. The topos of difference, to which translation is a response, is anterior to the conceptual difference of species or particularities. Yet, translation is often represented as a process of establishing equivalence according to the model of communication. This misapprehension of translation derives from the confusion of the act of translat…
Japan Studies and Cultural Studies
Other| May 01 1999 Japan Studies and Cultural Studies Harry Harootunian; Harry Harootunian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Naoki Sakai Naoki Sakai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (2): 593–647. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-593 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
You Asians
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 4, Fall 2000
Positions and Positionalities
In characterizing one of the extraordinary achievements of positions: east asia cultures critique, one cannot overestimate a political investment gradually constituted, wittingly or unwittingly, throughout the career of the periodical by the editorial team to counteract the implicit separation between the West and Asia, a regime of what Johannes Fabian called “the denial of coevalness” that insists on two different temporalities in which area spe…
The End of Area
A Genealogy
The West-A Dialogic Prescription or Proscription
The taxonomy of humanity can be dictated by a number of categories: civilization, race, ethnicity, tradition, culture and so forth. While often perceived as only descriptive and ‘naturally fixed’, none of these categories is capable of specifying the identity of a particular group without committing conceptual inconsistency or offering a reasonably coherent and systematic classification of the human kind in general. Yet, it is impossible to say t…
Imperial Nationalism and the Comparative Perspective
The transpacific relationship between the United States and Japan has been analyzed, discussed, and diagnosed ever since the U.S. occupation of Japan. Despite the variety and wealth of scholarship on this topic, however, the dearth of comparative studies with respect to fascistic and imperialistic formations in the two countries is striking. This article investigates the formation of Japanese area studies in the United States in view of transpaci…
Subject and Substratum
This paper addresses the theoretical and philosophical questions concerning how an individual identified him/herself as a member of an ethnic, racial, or national community in the context of Japanese Imperialist discourse during the 1930's. The central focus is Tanabe Hajime. Together with his mentor Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe established the so-called Kyoto School of Philosophy in the 1920's. With his background in the philosophy of sciences and mat…
From area studies toward transnational studies
Modernity and Its Critique
Research Article| July 01 1988 Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism Naoki Sakai Naoki Sakai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (3): 475–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-87-3-475 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Naoki Sakai; Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and …
Theory and Asian humanity
What can an Asian theory be? Is the question a blatant oxymoron, or some intellectual anomaly? What is at stake in this enquiry is not the character of Asia at all. On the contrary, what makes the pairing of Asia and theory somewhat strange is our presumption that theory is something we normally expect of Europe or the West. (Europe and the West must be differentiated historically and geopolitically, but for reasons of space the two designations …
Return to the West/Return to the East
Modernity and Its Critique
Research Article| July 01 1988 Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and Particularism Naoki Sakai Naoki Sakai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (3): 475–504. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-87-3-475 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Naoki Sakai; Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and …
Critical Encounters between Philosophy and Politics . Fred R. Dallmayr
Return to the West/Return to the East
The Challenge of Comparative Literature
Tokugawa Texts as a Playground for a Postmodern Romp
Japan Studies and Cultural Studies
Other| May 01 1999 Japan Studies and Cultural Studies Harry Harootunian; Harry Harootunian Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Naoki Sakai Naoki Sakai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (2): 593–647. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-2-593 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email …
You Asians
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 4, Fall 2000
Subject and Substratum
This paper addresses the theoretical and philosophical questions concerning how an individual identified him/herself as a member of an ethnic, racial, or national community in the context of Japanese Imperialist discourse during the 1930's. The central focus is Tanabe Hajime. Together with his mentor Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe established the so-called Kyoto School of Philosophy in the 1920's. With his background in the philosophy of sciences and mat…
La modernité et sa critique
Nationalisme japonais de l'Après-guerre
Le nationalisme japonais après la seconde guerre mondiale a émergé de l’occupation du Japon par les États-Unis. Plutôt que d’opprimer le sentiment nationaliste, l’administration américaine d’occupation a flatté le sens de la singularité et de la continuité du Japon et a aidé à effacer la culpabilité coloniale du Japon ainsi que sa responsabilité dans la guerre. Cette stratégie américaine à l’égard du Japon est parfaitement symbolisée par le fait …
Two Negations
Research Article| November 01 2004 Two Negations: Fear of Being Excluded and the Logic of Self-Esteem NAOKI SAKAI NAOKI SAKAI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Novel (2004) 37 (3): 229–257. https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.037030229 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation NAOKI SAKAI; Two Negations: Fear of Being Excluded and the Logic of Self-Esteem. Novel 1 November …
The West-A Dialogic Prescription or Proscription
The taxonomy of humanity can be dictated by a number of categories: civilization, race, ethnicity, tradition, culture and so forth. While often perceived as only descriptive and ‘naturally fixed’, none of these categories is capable of specifying the identity of a particular group without committing conceptual inconsistency or offering a reasonably coherent and systematic classification of the human kind in general. Yet, it is impossible to say t…
Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference (Traces 4)
Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference, the fourth book in the Traces series, focuses on the problems of translation and the political dynamics surrounding multiplicity — linguistic, regional, transnational, and civilizational — today. The international group of authors deal, both theoretically and empirically, with the historical obstacles and future opportunities offered by an emerging global order that is still struggling with the legac…
“You Asians”
Translation
Translation is an act of articulation that takes place in the social topos of difference or incommensurability. The topos of difference, to which translation is a response, is anterior to the conceptual difference of species or particularities. Yet, translation is often represented as a process of establishing equivalence according to the model of communication. This misapprehension of translation derives from the confusion of the act of translat…
Traduction, biopolitique et différence coloniale
Abbassides Dynastie d’origine arabe, issue de la famille de Muhammad, mais largement soutenue par le monde iranien. Elle régna sur le califat entre 750 et 1258 après avoir détrôné les Omeyyades. Esclavons Traduction de l’arabe Saqaliba, ce terme désigne les Slaves utilisés comme esclaves qui, une fois convertis, pouvaient occuper des positions de confiance, voire de pouvoir. Fatimides Dynastie d’origine arabe, pratiquant l’islam chiite, ayant rég…
Imperial Nationalism and the Comparative Perspective
The transpacific relationship between the United States and Japan has been analyzed, discussed, and diagnosed ever since the U.S. occupation of Japan. Despite the variety and wealth of scholarship on this topic, however, the dearth of comparative studies with respect to fascistic and imperialistic formations in the two countries is striking. This article investigates the formation of Japanese area studies in the United States in view of transpaci…
On Romantic Love And Military Violence
This chapter examines the historical, political, and philosophical intimacies between Japanese and U.S. imperial projects. More specifically, it explores how the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized—which is mediated through the threat and use of military violence—is narrativized and practiced in heterosexualized terms. It considers how the underlying and constant threat of violence along with the imminent threat of rape is repres…
From area studies toward transnational studies
Theory and Asian humanity
What can an Asian theory be? Is the question a blatant oxymoron, or some intellectual anomaly? What is at stake in this enquiry is not the character of Asia at all. On the contrary, what makes the pairing of Asia and theory somewhat strange is our presumption that theory is something we normally expect of Europe or the West. (Europe and the West must be differentiated historically and geopolitically, but for reasons of space the two designations …
The Trans-Pacific Imagination
Introduction National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant in US Empire after September 11 Trans-Pacific Studies and US - Japan Complicity Re-Imagining the Space of East Asia - from Empire to Cold War and Beyond The Political Formation of the Homoerotics and the Cold War: Battle of the Gazes at and from Okinawa Transnationality of the Victimhood Nationalism Making Sense of East Asia: From China's Point of View East Asia as an Objective of an Inte…
Le genre, enjeu politique et langage du nationalisme postcolonial japonais
Le nationalisme japonais se manifeste dans la négation collective des faits historiques et de la culpabilité coloniale, en particulier par rapport aux pays d’Asie et d’Asie de l’Est. La question des ‘femmes de réconfort’ ( comfort women ) de la période de guerre — l’institution d’esclavage sexuel établie pendant la guerre en Asie et dans le Pacifique par le Gouvernement japonais, qui força de nombreuses femmes des colonies japonaises et des terri…
The Trans-Pacific Imagination
Introduction
A Relentlessly Productive Venue”
Rebecca Karl, Tom Lamarre, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Naoki Sakai, Jesook Song, and Angela Zito interview Senior Editor Tani Barlow, posing a series of question on history, politics, confiict, Cold War scholarship, and the struggle over so-called area studies. Topics raised and considered include the history of the journal's founding, critical reminiscence of the project's early years of publications and intellectual politics, historical …
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