2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Peter Sloterdijk and the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
| Project/Area Number |
24520336
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
European literature (English literature excluded)
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | フクシマ原発事故 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of this research project was to analyze Sloterdijk’s influential publication “You have to change your life” and to clarify its relationship to intellectual reactions to the Fukushima nuclear accident in Germany and thereby to elucidate the particularly critical German reactions to the catastrophe. In particular, this research project analyzed the two main concepts of this work, i.e. “anthropotechnics” and “immunology”, clarifying their meaning and discursive influences. His use of rhetoric and translation, and his transnational philosophical and religious thinking were also analyzed. Special focus was put on the role of literature in his theoretical argument. In addition, German and Japanese literary pieces dealing with the Fukushima accident were analyzed and compared to his argument. The research results were so fruitful that they led to additional inquiries.
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| Free Research Field |
ドイツ文学
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