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“法”的表现进行多学科的研究。这项长达两年的研究项目就这三点得出了一些重要的新观点：1)在法国启蒙运动中，法律的概念及其合法性正处于危机之中；2)这场危机与法国社会所有派别正在进行的强大的合理化过程一样是全球性的；3)这种现象可以被描述为一种建立对整个社会的国家控制的机制，这是20世纪70年代末法国哲学家米歇尔·福柯的特权主题。调查人员在两个场合介绍了这些成果：1)在2007年7月在法国蒙彼利埃举行的18世纪国际研究大会上(该项目的联合调查员组织了几个Raoud表)；2)在北海道大学(关于德里达/莱维纳斯/卢梭)的研讨会上(2008年3月18日)。

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).