A Personal Retrospection of the Serial Lecture on Kohei HANAZAKI's Thought : From the Perspective of the Third Person “I”

摘要

The People's Plan Study Group (PPSG http://www.peoples-plan.org/jp/), set up in 1998 as a network of social movement activists and action-committed intellectuals, aims to search for alternative social, economic, and cultural systems controlled by the people that will eventually take over global capitalism with all its destructive consequences. PPSG initiated an alternative school, OPEN (an abbreviation for “An Opening for People’s Education Network”) in 2008. And this school offered a serial lecture on the thought of a Japanese philosopher, Kohei HANAZAKI (born in 1931) from 2014 to 2015. In this paper, I will try to make a retrospective review of this lecture in series from the perspective of the Third Person “I”, which unites the first person's subjectivity and the third person's objectivity.