Reexamination of Heidegger's concept of world and theory of technology on the basis of Sloterdijks's concept of sphere

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00105
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01040:History of thought-related
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: TAKADA Tamaki 大阪大学, 大学院人文学研究科(外国学専攻、日本学専攻), 名誉教授 (80144541)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: スローターダイク / ハイデガー / 球体圏 / 人新世

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I, the applicant has attempted to clarify the relationship between Sloterdijk and Heidegger as well as the full scope of the German Philosopher Sloterdijk's thought through reading a number of his voluminous works. During the period of the research grant, which coincided with the outbreak of the COVID 19 I published two relatively short essays outlining Sloterdijk's thought, despite the various restrictions caused by the desease. As for "The Sphere," which can be said to be the core of Sloterdijk's thought, the sheer volume of the work bearing that title (approximately 2,500 pages) makes translation and introduction difficult for the time being, but I am steadily translating another work (approximately 420 pages) that condenses its contents, and plan to publish it with commentary in the next fiscal year.

Free Research Field

哲学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

スローターダイクは、主著『球体圏』を始めとして、多くの国で翻訳が進み、世界的に極めて重要な思想家として認知されているが、日本では、初期の代表作を申請者が比較的早い段階で翻訳したものの、その後、紹介が進まず受容が滞っている。彼の著作は、人類史全体を人間が自己の環境の変容を通じて自己自身の創成する過程として捉える一方、近代全体を海洋を中心としてグローバル化として特徴づける独自の世界史の構図を呈示している。成果自体はこれまでのところ小論文2本にとどまっているが、来年度に予定する単行本の翻訳を含め、以後、精力的にスロタ―ダイクの思想の紹介を通じて、日本の哲学研究に寄与したい。