SEEKING THE INTERNATIONAL IN PRE-MEIJI JAPANESE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: AN ANALYSIS THROUGH THE WORKS OF TAISHI, RAZAN, AND NORINAGA

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2024-11-15

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Karahasanoğlu, Toygun

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This thesis aims to contribute to the developing theoretical sub-field of the discipline of IR, Global IR, and the broader aim of developing a post-Western IR and IRT via enquiring on the fragments of political thought on the concept of the international and pre-theories of IR theories. The basic assumption of this thesis is that the international, as an aspect of social relations and societal networks, depending on the specific period and the issue at hand, instead of being effective in the modern epoch, has always been an important aspect of social existence. It is argued that the international has always been an integral part of the societal development at the local level, producing ramifications for local and national as well as trans-local and trans-national interactions and exchanges. Consequently, it is presumed that, at different moments of different communities, along with other social dimensions such as economics, politics, religion, etc., the international may also be a subject of contemplation and deliberation, if not full-fledged theorization. Thus, the thesis aims to problematize the ontological and epistemological postulates which render such unearthing subordinate and overlooked by invoking a different and inclusive conceptualization of the concept of the international and international relations. Ultimately, the thesis provides the statements of three political philosophers of Japan from the pre-modern, pre-Western expansionist period to evince the existence of international thought by focusing on the statements and writings of Shotoku Taishi, Hayashi Razan and Motoori Norinaga in chronological order.

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Japanese Political Philosophy, Non-Western IR, Shotoku Taishi, Hayashi Razan, Motoori Norinaga

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/112654

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis