왕후이의 현대성 인식과 대안적 중국론의 과제

Abstract

In Wang Hui’s regional discourse, ‘Asia’ can be said to be a ‘trans systematic’ political body against Western imperial hegemony. His Asian theory was established in a strong sense of criticism of the Western-centered worldview that has dominated the world for centuries, and there are doubts about the ‘enlightenment’ that essentially spawned Western national reason. He partially sympathized with the historical significance of China’s new enlightenment in the 1980s, but criticized that it overlooked the side effects of the Chinese government’s reform and opening policy and ignored people’s political participation. Although Wang Hui’s criticism is valid, the problem is that he neglected and simplified the diversity of Western modernity and the Enlightenment. Here, the researcher summoned two thinkers who were deeply immersed in the modernity problem of China and Japan. They are Takeuchi Yoshimi and Mizoguchi Yuzo. Takeuchi Yoshimi and Mizoguchi Yujo’s discourse on modernity is related to the long-standing question of “What is modernity?” and is especially deeply related to the question of how to deal with the problem of modernity and ‘time’. For Takeuchi Yoshimi, modern time is a time of constant advance, while for Yujo Mizoguchi, modern time is closer to what Wang Hui calls ‘tendency(時勢)’ or ‘horizontal time’. In that sense, modernity is pluralistic for Wang Hui, but the problem may be that such a modern view runs counter to his long-standing special evaluation of the significance of the Chinese revolution.