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Theories and representations of "hybridity" in Western history of thought

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K00103
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 01040:History of thought-related
Research InstitutionTokyo Metropolitan University

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)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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)
Keywordshybridity / 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
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”.

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.

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.

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).

Report

(4 results)
  • 2023 Research-status Report
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Open Access: 4 results)

  • [Journal Article] L’hybridite comme reinvention de l’humain chez Baptiste Morizot2024

    • Author(s)
      Jocelyn Groisard
    • Journal Title

      人文学報

      Volume: 520 Pages: 1-20

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Les monstres hybrides dans l'histoire de la teratologie : d'Aristote a Fortunio Liceti2023

    • Author(s)
      Jocelyn Groisard
    • Journal Title

      人文学報

      Volume: 519 Pages: 1-17

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Les hybrides dans le bestiaire medieval. Definition, symbolique, topologie2022

    • Author(s)
      Jocelyn Groisard
    • Journal Title

      『人文学報』

      Volume: 518 Pages: 1-26

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Mixtes et hybrides : Esquisse d'une histoire des modeles de diversite2021

    • Author(s)
      GROISARD Jocelyn
    • Journal Title

      東京都立大学 人文学報

      Volume: 517 Pages: 125-149

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Open Access

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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