评《唯物论者何以言规范》一书中的“日本论”——以丸山真男的思想为参照

Some Comments on the Theory of Japan in Xu Yingjin’s How Could Normativity Be Derived from a Materialist Narrative: A Comparison with the Thoughts of Maruyama Masao

徐英瑾在其新著《唯物论者何以言规范——项从分析形而上学到信息技术哲学的多视角考察》的最后两个章节中将讨论的范围拓展到了政治哲学,提出了一个以“空间性的信息交换结构”为核心的唯物主义分析范式,并以日本的政治和文化作为范例,展示了这种“自下而上”的范式的解释效力。对于日本传统,徐著和丸山虽然同时看到了日本文化的“杂居性”特质,却导向了积极和消极两种结论,这也导致了两者对于日本近代政治转型中出现的问题做出了截然相反的诊断。通过比对可知,徐著的日本论在相关领域有得到进一步深化的潜力,并检测徐著所提出的政治哲学的“抗压性”。

Centering on the concept of“spatial structure of information exchange”,Xu Yingjin offers a materialistic framework for analyzing political or cultural communities in the last two chapters of his book How Could Normativity be Accommodated in Materialism.An analysis of Japanese politics and culture is then provided by the author in order to exemplify the application of this“bottom-up”framework.As a book review,this paper compares Xu’s theory of Japan with Maruyama Masao’s relevant thoughts.It shows that,although Xu and Maruyama both notice the“multiplicity”of Japanese society and culture,they draw opposite conclusions with respect to the foundation of Japanese tradition,which further leads to their divergent views on how the problems of Japan’s political modernization raise.Through comparison,I explore the potentials of Xu’s theory of Japan in related areas and examine the explanatory power of the general framework in a more particular context.