Nationalism No Fukken (Chiku Ma Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] To think about the nation is to think about the fundamental nature of human beings. What did Arendt and Takaaki Yoshimoto, who expressed their discontent with the liberal democracy of the post-World War II era, see in "totalitarianism" and what kind of nation did they envision? What kind of ideological confrontation did Jun Eto, Bunzo Hashikawa, Masao Maruyama, and others engage in over nationalism? This essay draws on a number of famous books to reveal the mental structure of people today who are not free from nationalism, and to raise the importance of taking on the issue of the nation as one's own challenge. This is an essay by a remarkable young historian of ideas.

国家を考えることは、人間の根源的なあり方を考えることだ。第二次大戦後のリベラル・デモクラシー体制への違和を表明したアーレントや吉本隆明は「全体主義」の中に何を見て、いかなる国家を構想したのか。江藤淳や橋川文三、丸山眞男らは、ナショナリズムをめぐりいかなる思想的対決をくり広げたか。数々の名著から、ナショナリズムと無縁たりえぬ現代人の精神構造を明らかにし、国家の問題を自らの課題として引き受けることの重要性を提起する。注目の若手思想史家の論考。