
Reconfiguring Modernity
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Thomas's theoretically sophisticated study rejects the supposition that modernity is the ideological antithesis of nature, overcoming the determinism of the physical environment through technology and liberating denatured subjects from the chains of biology and tradition. In making "nature" available as a critical term for political analysis, this book yields new insights into prewar Japan's failure to achieve liberal democracy, as well as an alternative means of understanding modernity and the position of non-Western nations within it.
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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. Kato Hiroyuki: Turning Nature into Time
Kato Hiroyuki and Tenko
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 Kato
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
Shinto's National Nature
Economizing Nature
Educating the National Family
World-Historical Nature
9. Conclusion: Natural Freedom
Index
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