1st Edition
Regenerating Japan Organicism, Modernism and National Destiny in Oka Asajiro's Evolution and Human Life
By Gregory Sullivan
Copyright 2018
424 Pages
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Central European University Press
As the first step toward a comprehensive reinterpretation of the role of evolutionary science and biomedicine in pre-1945 Japan, this book addresses the early writings of that era’s most influential exponent of shinkaron (evolutionism), the German-educated research zoologist and popularizer of biomedicine, Oka Asajirō (1868–1944). Concentrating on essays that Oka published in the years during and... Read more
List of Figures, Preface and Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I: Organicism, PART II: Metapolitics, PART III: Regeneration, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Gregory Sullivan is Associate Professor, United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, Long Island, New York.
