The Path from a Theory of Civilization to Escape of Asia: Yukichi Fukuzawa’s Perception of Asia and the ‘Mission to Civilize
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This thesis analyzes Fukuzawa’s civilization discourse and perception of Asia from the view that the Japanese application of the European colonial discourse, which he unconsciously accepted, was an acknowledgement or internalization of the “mission to civilize.” I believe that the notion of the “mission to civilize,” which dominated European colonial discourse, is very useful to explain Fukuzawa’s deviation from enlightenment ideology or his duplicity. Post-colonial theory, which is recently being actively discussed, focuses on and takes up this logic of the “mission to civilize,” and judges and dismantles the ambivalence of colonial discourse (the duplicity of self-perception and the perception of others), the process of forming a self-identity by representing others, and further, the self-contradiction contained within modern enlightenment itself.
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This thesis analyzes Fukuzawa’s civilization discourse and perception of Asia from the view that the Japanese application of the European colonial discourse, which he unconsciously accepted, was an acknowledgement or internalization of the “mission to civilize.” I believe that the notion of the “mission to civilize,” which dominated European colonial discourse, is very useful to explain Fukuzawa’s deviation from enlightenment ideology or his duplicity. Post-colonial theory, which is recently being actively discussed, focuses on and takes up this logic of the “mission to civilize,” and judges and dismantles the ambivalence of colonial discourse (the duplicity of self-perception and the perception of others), the process of forming a self-identity by representing others, and further, the self-contradiction contained within modern enlightenment itself.