Table of contents : Contents Prologue Acknowledgments 1. Logical Models for Self Analysis: Opposition and Contingency 2. Social Self in Front and Interior Zones: Omote and Uchi 3. Social Self in Back and Exterior Zones: Ura and Soto, Anomalous Counterparts to Omote and Uchi 4. The Inner, Reflexive Self: Interiority and Exteriority in Contingency 5. Self in Cosmology and Aesthetics Epilogue. In Defense of Japan Studies References Index About the Author