讲者
Prof. Viren Murthy
慕唯仁教授为芝加哥大学博士，任教于美国威斯康辛大学麦迪逊校区历史系，讲授有关亚洲的跨国史，研究范围包括日本,中国与印度思想史。专著为Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution （泛亚洲主义与中国革命的遗产）（University of Chicago Press, 2023）, The Politics of Time in China and Japan （中国与日本的有关时间的政治）, （Routledge, 2022）,《章太炎的政治哲学：意识之抵抗》（The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness. Brill，2011），中文版即上海华东师范大学出版社出版。编著包括《东亚马克思主义》（与刘纪惠合编。Marxisms in East Asia. Routledge, 2017），《对抗资本与帝国：再思京都哲学学派》（与Fabian Schäfer、Max Ward合编。Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy. Brill, 2017），《线性时间观的挑战：东亚的国家属性与历史政治》（与Axel Schneider合编。The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia. Brill, 2013），以及《全球历史思考指南》（与杜赞奇、Andrew Sartori合编。A Companion to Global Historical Thought. Blackwell, 2014）。并在Modern Intellectual History、Modern China、Frontiers of History in China、Positions: Asia Critique等期刊上发表论文多篇。目前的研究内容包括专著《泛亚洲主义与后殖民现代性难题》等，为北京大学博古睿学者。他现在是中文大学中国文化研究所访问学人。
活动概览
The Japanese public intellectual Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) is particularly interesting to us today because through reading China, he constructs a critique of Eurocentrism that anticipates postcolonial discourse. We examine Takeuchi from our present historical conjuncture, we can grasp some of the tensions between postcolonialism and Marxism and, in particular, the tension between universalism and particularism. In this context, Takeuchi uses Lu Xun as a lens to understand political actors such as Sun Zhongshan and Mao Zedong. While most works on Takeuchi have touched on his reading of Lu Xun, they have rarely dealt with his attempt to understand Mao Zedong. Consequently, they have failed to grasp the relevance of Takeuchi’s work for Marxist theory both historically and theoretically.
During transition from wartime to postwar Japan, Takeuchi constantly returns to Lu Xun and Mao Zedong to develop a vision of Asia as an alternative to a modern world dominated by abstraction and alienation. Through Lu Xun and Mao, he rethinks the relationship between intellectuals and the people in way that he believes would be a new path for Asia. In short, he envisions the people as an amorphous force that cannot be quite subsumed under capitalism and the state. With respect to Marxism, Takeuchi’s work anticipates recent postcolonial attempts to question the Eurocentric nature of Marxism, while at the same time rethinking concepts such as the people and the working class. Takeuchi’s work might seem obsolete today with the passing of Mao’s China. However, since his death in 1977, scholars have built on elements of his legacy. Towards the end of my presentation, I will touch on how themes of Takeuchi’s work live on in the work of the Japanese sinologist Mizoguchi Yūzō and the Chinese critical intellectual Wang Hui.
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