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Reconfiguring Modernity – Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology Hardcover - 2002
by Julia Adeney Thomas
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- Title Reconfiguring Modernity – Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology
- Author Julia Adeney Thomas
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 254
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ of California Pr, Berkeley
- Date 2002
- Features Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0520228545
- ISBN 9780520228542 / 0520228545
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.3 x 0.99 in (23.57 x 16.00 x 2.51 cm)
- Reading level 1670
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Japan - Politics and government - 1868-1912, Nature - Effect of human beings on - Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001005374
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.209
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When blues legend Howlin' Wolf sings, "Nature cause me to mess up my life," we know how he feels.
From the rear cover
"Reconfiguring Nature is a stimulating, original, and timely contribution to contemporary attempts to give modern political thought a global and hybrid genealogy. Thomas's analysis of Japanese ideas of 'nature' helps to raise some fundamental questions about assumptions made in Euro-American political philosophy. Comparativist and specialized at the same time, this book is extremely sensitive to the complex processes through which ideas cross boundaries in time and space."--Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
"Reconfiguring Modernity treats the linked transformations in conceptions of nature, the body, and society in Japan from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1930s: from a static and hierarchical unity of cosmos and society, to a competitive and evolutionary "naturalized" society, and then again to a 'family state' and projected unitary culture as the harmonious counterpart, of a benevolent natural world. To this compellingly interesting theme, Julia Thomas brings an impressive range of reading and considerable literary skill. Her argument is frequently original and always discerning. In highlighting the impact and permutations of evolutionary thinking, it is especially important contribution to Meiji intellectual history, which has not been given sustained attention for quite some time in English-language scholarship."--Andrew Barshay, author of State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan
"Reconfiguring Modernity treats the linked transformations in conceptions of nature, the body, and society in Japan from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1930s: from a static and hierarchical unity of cosmos and society, to a competitive and evolutionary "naturalized" society, and then again to a 'family state' and projected unitary culture as the harmonious counterpart, of a benevolent natural world. To this compellingly interesting theme, Julia Thomas brings an impressive range of reading and considerable literary skill. Her argument is frequently original and always discerning. In highlighting the impact and permutations of evolutionary thinking, it is especially important contribution to Meiji intellectual history, which has not been given sustained attention for quite some time in English-language scholarship."--Andrew Barshay, author of State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan