Gilles Deleuze and the Theory of Community in Late 20th Century France

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K19958
• 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: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: KUROKI Hidefusa 立教大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 教育講師 (00907511)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-08-30 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: フランス / 現代思想 / ドゥルーズ / フーコー / バルト / ナンシー / 共同体 / 身体

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to reexamine the correlation between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, a leading French philosopher of the 20th century, and contemporary French thought since then, from the perspective of the theory of community. By re-positioning Deleuze in the context of the contemporary thought currents represented by Foucault and Barthes, who deepened their thinking on symbiosis while renewing the concept of the body, and especially by reading "Anti-Oedipus," written with Guattari in the 1970s, it becomes clear that Deleuze was exploring the formation of "groupuscule" that are different from the modern family. He also showed that Deleuze's discussions in the 1970s may have made a significant contribution to the flourishing of community theory in the 1980s and beyond.

Free Research Field

フランス現代思想

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ドゥルーズ、フーコー、バルトら70年代のポスト構造主義と、ナンシーをはじめとする80年代以降のポスト・ポスト構造主義との関係について近年関心が高まるなか、共同体論という観点から両者の間に接続可能な点を探る本研究は、これまでのフランス現代思想研究の刷新に寄与するものである。さらにその中で、ドゥルーズが提示しようとしていた主体性と共同性をめぐる議論が、現代のジェンダー論や家族論にもつながるアクチュアルな視座を拓いていたことが明らかにされた。