Domination through Subordinalion:

This article examines Yi Kwangsu’s writings, which arguably referred not only to his longing for national îndependence in colonial Korea but to his labora tion with Japan. fily, by juxtaposing tica l thoughts with N ieαsche s then popular thesis 0 domination, present the fol1owing two claims First Yi retaîns the politics of domination that provides epistemologil ∞heren∞ to his ideas, ranging from the advocacy of the reconstruction of the nation 10 the assertion of voluntary subordination to the ]apanese Empire. Second, Yi s co loni collaboration, embodied in h asration for an empire, demonstrates the need for overcoming the simple antimonies b아ween resιtanæ and collaboration on the one hand and between nationalism and anti-nationalism on the other hand