Reconfiguring modernity : concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Twentieth-century Japan ;
12 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=90535 |
Table of Contents:
- 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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