Regenerating Japan
Subtitle: Organicism, Modernism and National Destiny in Oka Asajiro's Evolution and Human Life
Series: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9789633862100
Subjects: Japan, history; Japan, economic conditions
Table of contents: title: List of Figures; title: Preface and Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: Moss Animal Nation; title: Part I: Organicism; title: Chapter 1: The Organic State: The Imperative of Ethical Life; title: Chapter 2: Palingenetic Polypersons: Evolutionary Morphology and the Question of Organic Individuality; title: Chapter 3: Generative Scientism: Organicism beyond Reform; title: Part II: Metapolitics; title: Chapter 4: World War Zero; title: Chapter 5: The Human-Way: Nomic Instincts and the Transformation of Humanity; title: Part III: Regeneration; title: Chapter 6: Nomic Crisis; title: Chapter 7: Decadence and Destiny; title: Epilogue: Evolution and the National Body: An Unfinished Synthesis; title: Bibliography