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

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• 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
• Keywords: 群集 / 群れ / ドイツ文学 / 表象文化論 / 言説史 / 共同行動

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.

Free Research Field

人文学