Reconfiguring Modernity : Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology.
Julia Adeney Thomas 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. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changin...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002. |
| Series: | Twentieth Century Japan: the Emergence of a World Power Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- 1. Introduction: The Trouble with Nature
- Objections
- Justifications
- Outline of Nature's Political History in Japan
- 2. The Topographical Imagination of Tokugawa Politics
- Mental Maps
- China as Imperial Center
- Japan's Imperial Center
- Rural Centers
- Centers of Learning
- Divorce Proceedings: Space versus Time
- 3. Early Meiji's Contentious Natures
- Natural Forms of Contention: Laws and Bodies
- The Historiography of Meiji Ideologies
- Nature's Indeterminate Determinism
- 4. Kat&
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- Hiroyuki: Turning Nature into Time
- Kat&
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- Hiroyuki and Tenk&
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- Shinsei tai'i 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&
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- Catalyzing Nature: The Role of Will in Baba's Social Evolution
- 6. Ueki Emori: Singing the Body Electric
- The Basic Body of Tenpu jinkenben
- The Political Problems of Ueki's Bodies
- A Dance of Loneliness
- 7. The Acculturation of Japanese Nature
- Social Evolution's Victory
- Social Evolution's 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
- Shint&
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- 's National Nature
- Economizing Nature
- Educating the National Family
- World-Historical Nature
- 9. Conclusion: Natural Freedom
- Index
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