French Revolution and Modern Europe - Empire and Nationstate -

继承了我们之前的研究成果，《法国大革命与现代欧洲》，Dobunkan，1996，Tadami ChIZUKA，Akira MatSumoto和Hirotaka Tateishi，我们重新启动了这个研究项目，研究统一的主题--帝国与民族国家，以全面地重新思考现代欧洲。从2000年到2003年，我们组织了许多研究活动，包括邀请一些特邀学者参加的几次研究会议，以及在西班牙巴塞罗那举行的研讨会，可以发现围绕这一主题的各种新观点。我们讨论了三年的主要观点如下：1)在比较和历史地讨论这一主题时，必须考虑德语、英语和法语中的国家、国家、土地、民族、人民和种族等关键词的原意是什么，这些词的原义与今天所代表的有什么不同。2)有必要调查自罗马时代就有悠久传统的“帝国”概念自近代以来发生了怎样的变化，以及这一概念与日本的“帝国”概念有何关系。3)思考“民族国家”和“现代国家”概念之间的联系和区别是非常重要的，现代国家包括主权、领土和民族三个因素。4)有必要思考国家与战争之间的关系，特别是在二十世纪的全面战争期间，迫使每个民族成员为国家而死。由于最近出版了一些重要著作的翻译出版物，包括列文的《帝国》和内格里和哈茨的《帝国》，关于《帝国和民族国家》的讨论开始进入新阶段。我们了解这一阶段，并希望在不久的将来公布我们三年的研究和讨论结果。

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.