French Revolution and Modern Europe - Empire and Nationstate -

继承了我们之前的工作成果，Tadami CHIZUKA， Akira MATSUMOTO和Hirotaka TATEISHI，编。《法国大革命与现代欧洲》，Dobunkan， 1996年，我们重新开始了这个研究项目，研究统一的主题，“帝国与民族国家”，以便全面地重新考虑现代欧洲。从2000年到2003年，我们组织了许多研究活动，包括几次邀请客座学者的研究会议，以及在西班牙巴塞罗那举办的研讨会，并可以发现关于这个主题的各种新点。三年来我们讨论的要点有：1)在比较地和历史地讨论这个问题时，必须考虑德语、英语、法语中“国家”、“国家”、“土地”、“民族”、“人民”、“种族”等关键词的原意是什么，这些原意与今天这些词所代表的意义有什么不同。2)有必要研究自罗马时代以来具有悠久传统的“帝国”概念是如何自现代以来发生变化的，以及这个概念与日本的“帝国”概念有什么关系。3)思考“民族国家”与“现代国家”概念之间的联系和区别是非常重要的，“现代国家”由主权、领土和民族三个因素组成。4)思考国家与战争之间的关系是必要的，特别是在20世纪的全面战争期间，这场战争迫使国家的每一个成员都“为国家而死”。由于列文的《帝国》、内格里和哈特的《帝国》等重要著作的翻译出版，“帝国与民族国家”的讨论进入了新的阶段。我们了解这个阶段，并希望在不久的将来公布我们三年的研究和讨论的结果。

Taking over the results achieved by our previous work, Tadami CHIZUKA, Akira MATSUMOTO and Hirotaka TATEISHI, eds., French Revolution and Modern Europe, Dobunkan, 1996, we restarted to run this research project studying the unified theme, 'Empire and Nation-State', in order to reconsider modern Europe comprehensively. From 2000 to 2003 we organized many research activities, including several research meetings inviting some guest scholars, and a workshop at Barcelona in Spain, and could discover a variety of new points concerning this theme.Chief points which we have discussed for three years are as follows : 1) that it is indispensable to consider what are the original meanings of the key words, country, state, land, nation, people and race in German, English, and French, and what is the difference between these original meanings and what these words represent today, when we discuss this theme comparatively and historically. 2) that it is necessary to investigate how the concept of 'imperium' which has a long tradition from the Roman times has changed since the modern times and what relationships this concept has with the concept of Japanese 'teikoku (empire)'. 3) that it is very important to think of the connection and difference between the concepts of 'nation-state' and of 'modern state', which consists of three factors, sovereignty territory, and nation. 4) That it is essential to contemplate the relationship between state and war, in particular, during the total war in the twentieth century, which forced every member of the nation to 'die for the state'.Discussions on 'empire and nation-state' began to see a new stage because some translated publications of important books, including Lieven's Empire and Negri and Harts's Empires, were recently published. We understand this stage and hope to publish the results of our three years' studies and discussions in the near future.