现在阅读竹内好的意义

Reading Takeuchi Yoshimi Now-What does It Mean to Us?

本文的主要论述关切在如下三个问题:一、在日本发动“大东亚战争”的思想根源中,存在着一个对现代这一体系进行批判的侧面。竹内好正是从这个侧面来看战争的。二、通过与难以得到现代化恩惠的社会底层的感情的结合,对现代这一体系的批判被吸收到日本民族主义中去了。三、在八十年代以后,这一民族主义构造正在发生着变化。而要认清日本的民族主义构造和演变,思考日本民族主义的改造,以上三个相互关联的观察视点是不可或缺的。

This paper has three theses. First, what lies at the root of the Japanese thought of launching the Eastern Asian War is a critical attitude towards the system of modernity, and Takeuchi Yoshimi represents such an attitude. Second, through emotional identification with the grassroots of society which could hardly benefit from modernization, the above-mentioned critical attitude was incorporated into Japanese nationalism. Third, since 1980s, Japanese nationalism is undergoing transformation. Where such transformation is heading is largely decided by the path it has so far taken.