""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
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