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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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New York :
Central European University Press,
2018.
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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.