Reconsideration of the representiton of the masses in the Weimar Republic from the stand points of the philosophy of dispossession and the theory of swarm intelligence

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16K13210
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	European literature
Research Institution	Osaka City University
Principal Investigator	Ebine Takeshi 大阪市立大学, 大学院文学研究科, 准教授 (00419673)
Project Period (FY)	2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	群集 / 群れ / ドイツ文学 / 表象文化論 / 言説史 / 共同行動 / ヴァイマル共和国
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The Focus of this research is to reexamine the process of formation and reconfiguration of the representation of the masses in the Weimar Republic form the vantage points of the newly developed theoretical thinking both in the political philosophy of "action in concert" and in the scientific research of the "swarm intelligence." This research shows that these new bodies of knowledge mark the radical departure form the theoretical paradigm of the thinking on the masses in the 20th century and can bring new productive insights into the characteristics und peculiarities of the representation of the masses in the Weimar Republic.