Interdisciplinary study on the actuality of F.G. Junger's philosophy of technology

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520024
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Shimonoseki City University
• Principal Investigator: KIRIHARA Takahiro 下関市立大学, 経済学部, 教授 (70573450)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): IMAI Atsushi 龍谷大学, 経済学部, 教授 (10380742) ; NAKASHIMA Kunio 独立行政法人水産大学校, 水産流通経営学科, 教授 (00416455) ; KONAGAYA Daisuke 龍谷大学, 経営学部, 准教授
• Research Collaborator: FUKUYAMA Miwako ; KUMAGAYA Emiko 元龍谷大学, 非常勤講師 ; MASUDA Yasuhiko 龍谷大学, 経営学部, 准教授 ; NISHIO Takahiro 龍谷大学, 非常勤講師 ; INABA Eiji 京都大学
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 技術哲学 / ドイツ文学史 / エコロジー思想 / 科学技術史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study aimed at the comprehensive examination of F. G. Junger’s essay, "Die Perfektion der Technik" (written in 1939, published after the war, English; “The Failure of the Technology”) from each point of view of philosophy, German literature, ecology and history of science and technology. The focused topics of the book were the following: 1) entanglement of mechanistic view of nature and organic view of life, human and society, 2) paradoxical proccess of decreasing of wealth and leisure by technology, as well as infectiousness of masses to ideology and inevitable deployment of wars in the technological era to all-out wars and 3) the sprouting of ecological idea on ground of the theory of wealth (of existence and of ownership) and of time (of production and of leisure). From synthetic examinations of these viewpoints as following task, it will be possible to stimulate discussion about the public-philosophical significance of science and technology.

Free Research Field

哲学