Reconstruction of the History of French Thought starting from Georges Bataille

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K23018
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0101:Philosophy, art, and related fields
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: ISHIKAWA MANABU 慶應義塾大学, 商学部(日吉), 准教授 (60842945)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: フランス思想史 / フランス文学 / 20世紀 / 文学論 / ジョルジュ・バタイユ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study attempts to examine, using the ideas of the 20th century French writer Georges Bataille as a reference axis, the ideas of A. Breton, J-P. Sartre, and E. Levinas, literary figures and thinkers of the same generation and later, and thereby highlight a genealogy in the history of thought from Bataille to the present day. By intercomparing the essays on common subjects of these figures, whose influence relationships are usually not always emphasized or considered adversarial, and by examining the significance of their reading experiences of the same books and the connections they made through their common relationships, we have achieved research results that contribute to deepen the understanding of their intellectual interactions.

Free Research Field

思想史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

バタイユ、ブルトン、サルトル、レヴィナスという、各々が現代においても世界規模で研究対象となっている知の巨人たちの思想的相互連関を従来と異なる視座から明らかにした本研究は、既存のフランス思想史を刷新する学術的意義を有している。今後、この成果の公表がさらに進むとともに、当該領域の新たな基礎研究としての位置づけを得ることが期待される。個々の作家の専門研究にも新規な論点を提供するものとなるはずである。