The federalist papers of Ueki Emori: liberalism and empire in the Japanese enlightenment
The federalist papers of Ueki Emori: liberalism and empire in the Japanese enlightenment
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植木荣守的联邦主义论文：日本启蒙运动中的自由主义与帝国
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10.1080/23801883.2017.1364138
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2017
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Amin Ghadimi
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Amin Ghadimi
江盛和树(1857-1892)是19世纪末日本启蒙运动中一位杰出的思想家和活动家，他谴责帝国主义是“更大的野蛮”和大规模奴隶制的一种形式，并呼吁所有国家统一在一个全球联邦中，以结束帝国的建立，并允许最大限度的个人自由。然而，他也支持日本在国外的侵略和殖民主义。本文考察了上木思想的认识论和本体论基础，认为他的世界观源于一种激进的自由主义，认为自主的主观自我是神圣不可侵犯的，但很容易在民族主义和种族主义文化主义背后动员起来。因此，本文认为，自由主义对现代日本自我的建构是在与全球帝国的建构相互加强的对话中发生的，它反思了日本早期现代性崩溃后的全球认知和个人存在问题。
ABSTRACT Ueki Emori (1857–1892), a prominent thinker and activist in the Japanese enlightenment of the late nineteenth century, denounced imperialism as a form of ‘greater barbarism’ and large-scale slavery and called for the unification of all nations in a global federation that would end empire-building and allow maximal individual freedom. Yet he also endorsed Japanese aggression and colonialism abroad. This paper examines the epistemological and ontological foundations of Ueki’s thought to argue that his worldview emerged from a radical liberalism that held the autonomous subjective self as sacrosanct but that easily mobilized behind nationalist and racialist culturalism. The paper thus suggests that the liberalist construction of the modern Japanese self occurred in reciprocally reinforcing dialogue with the construction of global empire, and it reflects on the problem of global knowing and individual being after the collapse of Japanese early modernity.