| Project/Area Number |
20K00103
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 01040:History of thought-related
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Metropolitan University |
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Principal Investigator |
グロワザール ジョスラン 東京都立大学, 人文科学研究科, 准教授 (30781885)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Keywords | hybridity / nature/culture / human/animal / Baptiste Morizot / Vinciane Despret / Philippe Descola / monsters / hybrids / teratology / Aristotle / Ambroise Pare / Fortunio Liceti / Pierre Boaistuau / hybrid / medieval bestiary / monster / animal symbolism / mixture / diversity / history of biology / history of philosophy / history of thought |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Today, hybrids are not just limited to cross-bred animals or hybridized plants: hybrids are everywhere around us or inside us, whether they are intelligent machines, robotic human beings, cross-media works of art, multicultural peoples, creolized languages. In this research project, I want to set this proliferation of hybrids in our contemporary world within the larger perspective of long-term cultural history in order to see how Ancient ways of thinking evolved into today’s pervasive concepts of “hybridity”.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In FY2023, I conducted research mainly on human-animal hybridity. The combination of human and animal parts into a half-human half-animal hybrid being has been used from Ancient times to represent sacred beings, monsters, or creatures exceeding the normal order of nature. In recent anthropology and philosophy, the concept of natural order itself and its opposition to culture have been increasingly challenged, so that hybridity of human and animal became an image of the blurred limit between culture and nature. Taking the example of the philosophy of French contemporary thinker Baptiste Morizot, I tried to show that his insistence on being conscious of capabilities we have in common with other animals and his philosophical elaboration of practices such as tracking invite us to reinvent our humanity as a kind of hybridity between other animal species and our own. This approach is relevant to crucial contemporary issues since the revision of our relationship to nature and the criticism of the concept of nature itself are necessary steps to invent new ways of relating to our non-human environment and to devise alternative social and economic models that would be more sustainable than the current one.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
As I focused on contemporary philosophical debates in FY2023, some delay has occurred in my planned research on the aesthetics of hybridity in the 18th century and its philosophical background.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In FY2024, I plan to divide my research into 3 main issues: 1. the part played by the notion of hybridity in the development of evolution theories; 2. the aesthetics of hybridity in 18th century French literature and philosophy (mainly Diderot and Restif de la Bretonne); 3. the philosophical and political meaning of hybrid creatures in French contemporary fiction (mainly Alain Damasio).
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