2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Typological and Functional Studies on Uses of Fiction in the Intellectual Public Sphere of the Enlightenment Period

Research Project

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Project/Area Number	16H01907
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	History of thought
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	Saito Sho 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (20314411)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	上村敏郎獨協大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (20624662) 大崎さやの東京藝術大学, 音楽学部, 講師 (80646513) 隠岐さや香名古屋大学, 経済学研究科, 教授 (60536879) 久保昭博関西学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (60432324) 後藤正英佐賀大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (60447985) 菅利恵三重大学, 人文学部, 教授 (50534492) 武田将明東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (10434177)
Project Period (FY)	2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Keywords	啓蒙 / フィクション / 18世紀 / ヨーロッパ
Outline of Final Research Achievements	Our joint project aimed at inquiring the forms and functions of the uses of fiction in the 18th century. Its major results can be divided into a) theoretical and b) historical research. In theoretical research, 1) we investigated the notion of intention in the theory of fiction (especially the so-called hypothetical intentionalism), 2) made a close examination of the genre of dialogue and 3) researched the relation between the concepts of fiction and narrative. As to historical research, we focused on Gottsched's translations of Fontenelle's dialogues and his theoretical reflecions on the genre. Further, we made a research on the fictitious "letters" published in the "Berlinische Monatsschrift" and argued for their fictiveness.
Free Research Field	哲学・思想史
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	従来の啓蒙研究にしばしば見られた「啓蒙＝理性の時代」という一面的な理解を克服し、フィクションの使用を手がかりに啓蒙という現象の多層性を示した点に本研究の学術的意義がある。また、この国際的にも新しい研究動向において、内外の研究者と緻密なネットワークを築いた意義も大きい。