2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study of the concepts of "living/non-living" in the twentieth century : in the contexts of the history of medicine and the history of philosophy.
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19720019
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
History of thought
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
TANAKA Yuriko Kyoto University, 人文科学研究所, 助教 (30346051)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 現代医学思想史 / 現代哲学 / 言説史 / 生物 / 無生物 / 生命科学史 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study I pursued following two subjects : 1) collecting philosophical and medical or biological works in the 20^<th> century concerning the ideas of the "living/nonliving" and examining the interactions among them ; 2) tracing the origins of those ideas to the philosophies and medical or biological thoughts in the 19^<th> century Europe. I came to the conclusion that there existed paradoxical, and often complementary, interactions between rather conservative attitudes among natural scientists of the 19^<th> century which paved the way for the research activities in the following century and the more radically futuristic vision conceived by philosophers.
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