Author: Oleg Benesch

Inventing the Way of the Samurai examines the development of the ‘way of the samurai’ – bushido – which is popularly viewed as a defining element of the Japanese national character and even the ‘soul …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the vocabulary of civility and civilization is very much at the forefront of political debate. Most of these debates proceed as if the meaning of these …

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