Has "Bildung" Disappered? German "Bildung" and Mapping of Cultural Knowledge in the present day

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26503009
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 文化学
• Research Institution: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: Sugiyama Masao 大阪府立大学, 高等教育推進機構, 教授 (00196776)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 教養 / 日本思想 / ドイツ哲学 / デジタル社会 / アイデンティティ形成 / 明治哲学 / 儒教

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Modern industrialized society depends on computer technology at all levels from the daily communication of individuals to the multi-billion dollar transactions of multinational businesses. This common knowledge, which used to be rooted in a historical and cultural heritage, is being replaced by snippets of digital information, which are readily retrieved at any time. As a result, the meaning of knowledge itself is being dramatically transformed in the new “digital society”.
My concern in this study is to find out how we can create a new kind of global common intellectual foundation that can help us understand each other and also aid in identity formation or what in German is called “Bildung” in a time of a paradigm change. To make these issues clear I discuss first paradigm change from Confucianism to Western philosophy during the Meiji-period, how this relates to the transformation of common knowledge in our digital society.

Free Research Field

文化研究