Problematics of the idea of law in the thoughts of the French Enlignement-critical studies on its narratology, theory and representations

本项目的目的在于对法国启蒙运动思想中的“法律”进行多学科研究。这一历时两年的研究课题在这三个方面揭示了一些重要的新观点：（1）在法国启蒙运动中，法律观念及其合法性本身正处于危机之中;（2）这一危机与法国社会各阶层正在经历的强大的理性化过程一样具有全球性;（3）这种现象可以被描述为一种建立国家对整个社会的控制的机制，这是法国哲学家米歇尔·福柯在20世纪70年代末的一个特殊主题。研究人员在两个场合介绍了这些结果：1）<th>2007年7月在蒙彼利埃（法国）举行的18世纪研究国际大会（该项目的共同研究者组织了几个圆桌会议）; 2）2008年3月18日在北海道大学举行的研讨会<th>（关于德里达/列维纳斯/卢梭）。

The aim of this project consists in a pluridisciplinary research on the representations of the "law" in the thoughts of the French Enlightenment. This two-year-long research project ealed some important new points of vew concerning these three points: 1) in the French Enlightenment, the very idea of the law and its legitimation were in a crisis; 2) this crisis was as global as the undergoing process of the mighty rationalisation in all the secors of the French society; 3) this phenomenon can be characterised as a mechanism of establishing state controle over all the society, which was the privileged theme for the defunt french philosophor Michel Foucault in the late 1970'. The investigators presented thes results in two occasions: 1) at the International Congress of the 18^<th> century studies held at Monpellier (France) in July 2007 (a couple of raoud-tables were organised by the co-investigators of this project); 2) at a workshop (on 18^<th> march 2008) at Hokkaido University (on Derrida/Levinas/Rousseau).