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Reconfiguring modernity : concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology /

The author turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, Julia Adeney, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2001.
Colección:Twentieth-century Japan ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • 1. Introduction: The Trouble with Nature
  • Objections
  • Justifications
  • Outline of Natures Political History in Japan
  • 2. The Topographical Imagination of Tokugawa Politics
  • Mental Maps
  • China as Imperial Center
  • Japans Imperial Center
  • Rural Centers
  • Centers of Learning
  • Divorce Proceedings: Space versus Time
  • 3. Early Meijis Contentious Natures
  • Natural Forms of Contention: Laws and Bodies
  • The Historiography of Meiji Ideologies
  • Natures Indeterminate Determinism
  • 4. Kat Hiroyuki: Turning Nature into Time
  • Kat Hiroyuki and Tenk
  • Shinsei taii and Kokutai shinron
  • Jinken shinsetsu
  • The Reaction to Jinken shinsetsu
  • 5. Baba Tatsui: Natural Laws and Willful Natures
  • The Equilibrium of Forces in Nature and History
  • The Death Wishes of Baba Tatsui and Herbert Spencer
  • Tenpu jinkenron: The Reply to Kat
  • Catalyzing Nature: The Role of Will in Babas Social Evolution
  • 6. Ueki Emori: Singing the Body Electric
  • The Basic Body of Tenpu jinkenben
  • The Political Problems of Uekis Bodies
  • A Dance of Loneliness
  • 7. The Acculturation of Japanese Nature
  • Social Evolutions Victory
  • Social Evolutions Defeat: The Political Inadequacy of a Progressive Cosmopolis
  • Nature as Japanese Culture: Bringing the Outside In
  • The Last Vestiges of Social Darwinism
  • 8. Ultranational Nature: Dead Time and Dead Space
  • Shints National Nature
  • Economizing Nature
  • Educating the National Family
  • World-Historical Nature
  • 9. Conclusion: Natural Freedom
  • Index
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