2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A System-theoretical Study of the Literature of the German Enlightenment

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520222
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research Institution	Osaka University
Principal Investigator	TSUDA Yasuo Osaka University, 大学院・言語文化研究科, 准教授 (20236897)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	システム理論 / ドイツ文化史 / ドイツ文学史 / メディア史 / 啓蒙主義
Research Abstract	In this study I researched the literature of the German enlightenment from the perspective of system theory and project theory. The German enlightenment disturbed the stability of psychic system and social system through the liberation of reason and emotion. The literature controlled the deliberated reason and emotion and worked as a stabilizer of the systems. In this way the literature promoted the enlightenment project as a system, but its real effect was restrictive. The main reason for it was probably the contingency in the communication between authors and readers

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