Reconfiguring modernity : concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ⅸ
• Acknowledgments = xiii
• Note on Transliteration = xv
• 1. Introduction : The Trouble with Nature = 1
• Objections = 4
• Justifications = 10
• Outline of Nature's Political History in Japan = 29
• 2. The Topographical Imagination of Tokugawa Politics = 32
• Mental Maps = 34
• China as Imperial Center = 40
• Japan's Imperial Center = 43
• Rural Centers = 48
• Centers of Learning = 53
• Divorce Proceedings : Space versus Time = 56
• 3. Early Meiji's Contentious Natures = 60
• Natural Forms of Contention : Laws and Bodies = 62
• The Historiography of Meiji Ideologies = 73
• Nature's Indeterminate Determinism = 80
• 4. Kat$$\bar o$$ Hiroyuki : Turning Nature into Time = 84
• Kat$$\bar o$$ Hiroyuki and Tenk$$\bar o$$ = 87
• Shinsei tai'i and Kokutai shinron = 95
• Jinken shinsetsu = 103
• The Reaction to Jinken shinsetsu = 108
• 5. Baba Tatsui : Natural Laws and Willful Natures = 111
• The Equilibrium of Forces in Nature and History = 114
• The Death Wishes of Baba Tatsui and Herbert Spencer = 117
• Tenpu jinkenron : The Reply to Kat$$\bar o$$ = 121
• Catalyzing Nature : The Role of Will in Baba's Social Evolution = 130
• 6. Ueki Emori : Singing the Body Electric = 133
• The Basic Body of Tenpu jinkenben = 138
• The Political Problems of Ueki's Bodies = 146
• A Dance of Loneliness = 155
• 7. The Acculturation of Japanese Nature = 158
• Social Evolution's Victory = 160
• Social Evolution's Defeat : The Political Inadequacy of a Progressive Cosmopolis = 163
• Nature as Japanese Culture : Bringing the Outside In = 168
• The Last Vestiges of Social Darwinism = 176
• 8. Ultranational Nature : Dead Time and Dead Space = 179
• Shint$$\bar o$$'s National Nature = 188
• Economizing Nature = 193
• Educating the National Family = 198
• World-Historical Nature = 201
• 9. Conclusion : Natural Freedom = 209
• Index = 227