Catholicism and Political Modernisation. "Paradox of Intellectualism" in the Political History of Europe

这项研究项目旨在描述三位德国天主教领袖的生活和思想，并呈现出天主教与其知识分子批评者在现代和当代欧洲之间的对抗的清晰图景。第一个调查对象是博格丹伯爵冯·赫滕-查普斯基(1851-1937)，他是德意志帝国的一名波兰普鲁士贵族，支持前现代的普鲁士爱国主义和君主制，同时对抗现代的德国或波兰的民族主义和民主。我的作品《多国普鲁士人的梦想。蓝色国际与欧洲秩序》是赫滕-查普斯基的传记，已经出版(名古屋大学出版社，2009年)。第二个主题是教皇本笃十六世(Joseph Ratzinger：1927-)，他是当今欧洲保守主义的领导人之一，并领导了第二届梵蒂冈理事会的重新审议，该理事会旨在改革天主教会以欧洲为中心和反智力的性质。本笃十六世的思想和与世界知识分子的斗争在我的论文《教皇本笃的斗争》(2011年日本德国研究学会公报)中进行了详细的讨论。第三个主题是卡尔-西奥多·巴伦·冯·达尔伯格亲王(1744年至1817年)，尽管他是神圣罗马帝国的德国总理，但他与法国革命时期的拿破仑皇帝关系密切，因此在19世纪死后被德国民族主义者批评为国家的叛徒。达尔伯格的传记目前正在进行中。

This research project aims to describe the life and ideas of three German Catholic leaders and present a clear vision of the confrontations between the Catholicism and its intellectual critics in modern and contemporary Europe. The first subject of investigation, Bogdan Count von Hutten-Czapski (1851-1937), was a Polish-Prussian aristocrat in the German Empire, who supported the premodern Prussian patriotism and monarchy, while confronting with the modern German or Polish nationalism and democracy. My work "The Dream of a Multinational Prussia. The Blue Internationals and the Order of Europe", a biography of Hutten-Czapski, has already been published (The Nagoya University Press, 2009). The second subject, Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger : 1927-), is one of today's leaders of European Conservatism and heads the reconsideration of the Second Vatican Council, which intended to reform the Eurocentric and anti-intellectual nature of the Catholic Church. Benedict's ideas and struggles against the intellectuals in the world are discussed in detail in my paper "Pope Benedict's Fight" (Bulletin of the Society of German Studies in Japan, 2011). The third subject, Prince Archbishop Carl-Theodor Baron von Dalberg (1744-1817), cooperated in spite of his status as German Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire intimately with Napoleon, the Emperor of the revolutionary France, and was therefore criticised posthumously by German Nationalists in the 19th century as a traitor of the country. A biography of Dalberg is now in progress.