Benjamin described his work as a “Copernican revolution” in the practice of history writing. His aim was to destroy the mythic immediacy of the present, not by inserting it into a cultural continuum that affirms the presenct as its culmination, but by discovering that constellation of hist »続きを読む

Negri: [……] Si le sujet ne peut pas être résolu dans l’extériorité de la citoyenneté, peut-il instaurer celle-ci dans la puissance et la vie? Peut-il render possible une nouvelle pragmatique militante, à la fois pietàs pour le monde et construction très radical? Quelle politiqu »続きを読む

Until recently, Western historians generally disregarded Tokugawa intellectual history, judging it to be “derivative” in contrasts to institutional configurations and processes that were demonstrably unique. Often they offered by way of explanation the gratuitous comment that the Japanese »続きを読む

Even after the “end of history,”there has seemed to persist some historical curiosity of a generally systemic―rather than a merely anecdotal―kind: not merely to know what will happen next, but as a more general anxiety about the larger fate or destiny of our system or mode of production wi »続きを読む

……Until recently, it has been difficult to imagine the occupation as an “embrace,”or to consider what effect the losers might have had on the victors and their agendas, or how that “American interlude” might have reinforced rather than altered tendencies within the defeated cou »続きを読む