Reconfiguring Modernity Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology

Name: Reconfiguring Modernity Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology
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ISBN: 9780520228542

ISBN-10: 0520228545

ISBN-13: 9780520228542

Edition: 2003

Authors: Julia Adeney Thomas, Peter B. Moyle

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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 changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from a semifeudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. In political documents from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century, nature was redefined, moving from the universal, spatial concept of the Tokugawa period, through temporal, social Darwinian ideas of inevitable progress and competitive struggle,…

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List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/8/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.37" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration



Introduction: The Trouble with Nature


Objections


Justifications


Outline of Nature's Political History in Japan



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



Early Meiji's Contentious Natures


Natural Forms of Contention: Laws and Bodies


The Historiography of Meiji Ideologies


Nature's Indeterminate Determinism



Kato Hiroyuki: Turning Nature into Time


Kato Hiroyuki and Tenko


Shinsei tai'i and Kokutai shinron


Jinken shinsetsu


The Reaction to Jinken shinsetsu



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 Kato


Catalyzing Nature: The Role of Will in Baba's Social Evolution



Ueki Emori: Singing the Body Electric


The Basic Body of Tenpu jinkenben


The Political Problems of Ueki's Bodies


A Dance of Loneliness



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



Ultranational Nature: Dead Time and Dead Space


Shinto's National Nature


Economizing Nature


Educating the National Family


World-Historical Nature



Conclusion: Natural Freedom


Index