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Regenerating Japan : Organicism, Modernism and National Destiny in Oka Asajirō's Evolution and Human Life /

"As the first step toward a comprehensive reinterpretation of the role of evolutionary science and biomedicine in pre-1945 Japan, this book addresses the early writings of that era's most influential exponent of shinkaron (evolutionism), the German-educated research zoologist and populariz...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sullivan, Gregory (Gregory F.) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Central European University Press, 2018.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : moss animal nation
  • The organic state : the imperative of ethical life
  • Palingenetic polypersons : evolutionary morphology and the question of organic individuality
  • Generative scientism : organicism beyond reform
  • World War Zero
  • The human-way : nomic instincts and the transformation of humanity
  • Nomic crisis
  • Decadence and destiny
  • Epilogue : evolution and the national body : an unfinished synthesis.