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Table of Contents: “…Tempered cascades of crime; 12. The art of struggle for free societies; Appendix I: Tributary propositions; rivers of meaning…”
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Table of Contents: “…1: A social theory of state, civility, and publics -- Aesthetic Japan and the Tokugawa network revolution -- Civility without civil society: a comparative overview -- Culture and identity as emergent properties in networks -- 2: The transformation and associational politics and the ruse of aesthetic publics -- Prelude to section two -- The medieval origin of aesthetic publics: linked poetry and the ritual logic of freedom -- The late medieval transformation of Za arts in struggles between vertical and horizontal alliances -- Tokugawa state formation and the transformation of aesthetic publics -- The rise of aesthetic civility -- The Haikai, network poetry: the politics of border crossing and subversion -- Poetry and protest: the rise of social power -- Tacit modes of communication and Japanese national identity -- 3: Market, state, and categorical politics -- Prelude to section 3 -- Categorical protest from the floating world: fashion, state, and gender -- The information revolution: Japanese commercial publishing and styles of proto-modernity -- Hierarchical civility and beauty: etiquette and manners in Tokugawa manuals -- 4: Concluding reflections -- The rise of aesthetic Japan -- Toward a pluralistic view of communication styles.…”