Science for the empire : scientific nationalism in modern Japan

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Science for the empire : scientific nationalism in modern Japan

Hiromi Mizuno

Stanford University Press, c2009

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [233]-251

Includes index

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This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolute core of its national identity, come to promote the advancement of science and technology? Using what logic did wartime Japanese embrace both the rationality that denied and the nationalism that promoted this mythology? Focusing on three groups of science promoters-technocrats, Marxists, and popular science proponents-this work demonstrates how each group made sense of apparent contradictions by articulating its politics through different definitions of science and visions of a scientific Japan. The contested, complex political endeavor of talking about and promoting science produced what the author calls "scientific nationalism," a powerful current of nationalism that has been overlooked by scholars of Japan, nationalism, and modernity.

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Contents Acknowledgments xxx Note on Transliteration xxx Introduction 1 Part 1 Technocracy Chapter 1 Toward Technocracy 000 Chapter 2 Technocratic Vision for a Scientific Empire 000 Part 2 Marxism Chapter 3 Incomplete Modernity and the Problem of Science 000 Chapter 4 Mapping Marxism onto the Politics of the Scientific 000 Chapter 5 Constructing the Scientific Japanese Tradition 000 Part 3 Popular Science Chapter 6 The Mobilization of Wonder 000 Conclusion 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

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