海外招聘教授特別講義シリーズ「グローバル時代の公共研究を目指して」

人権の系譜学―歴史的継続性の問題
The paper discusses some of the difficulties in establishing
historical continuities in the history of human rights, difficulties that would need to be overcome if a history of human rights was to become more than a matter of present centred genealogy. It argues that there is a continuity in the rhetorical functioning of appeals to
human rights in western European culture, but far less conceptual continuity.

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近世イギリスにおける系譜、歴史と自由論
The history of political thought has been a fundamentally secularising sub-genre of political studies, in which the quest to find modern secular concepts of politics has been important and historically distorting. The focus is principally on attempts to find in the seventeenth century adherents to concepts of  negative liberty and
liberalism, and in opposition to this neo Roman or Republican liberty. It concludes by suggesting that to see such exclusive commitments in
Hobbes is historically misleading. 

ホッブズとホメーロス
The paper discusses Hobbes’s until recently neglected translations of Homer as exercises in genealogical subversion and appropriation, expressions of his sense of being a philosopher and his conception of the public responsibilities of philosophy. Such a possibility seems
unlikely only because Hobbes’s place in a genealogy of modern philosophy has required oversimplifying his understanding of
philosophy. Hobbes’s ambitious enterprise of re-working the Homeric epics required in turn a repudiation through other translations, to
undo the damage he had seemed to do to the ‘father of poetry’ and to the proper role of philosophy.

国際関係：世俗化
As the first exploration of the reach and potential of intellectual history, I offer a new model of secularisation as a contingent,
cumulative, and incomplete process, with some unintended consequences. Facing severe conflict, key early modern thinkers realised that rival claims that staked their truth-content and validity on religious belief were ultimately irreconcilable. Gradually they removed such
claims from acceptable discourse, contributing to the comprehensive secularization that defines modernity. If blindness to religious
claims has become definitive of modern politics, recollecting its historical complexity and contingency is essential for overcoming some
of its failures.

制度的な汚職：定義と方法
The second case study in the promise of intellectual history maps out early modern and Enlightenment discourses on corruption, degeneracy, and human nature, in order to substantiate the hermeneutical mechanism for establishing the “baseline” compared to which the corruption or fidelity of a range of modern institutions, from banks to SCOTUS, can be measured and tested.

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行動経済学：創造芸術の典型とコンプレックス

My presentation will explore the exact import of intellectual history upon the production, appreciation and consumption of contemporary artworks. Taking six different works as case studies, I will explain how the conditions of their appreciation by an art-world audience is enhanced by the measure to which this audience is able to draw a line into both the near and the not so near past.

政治経済学：信用、商業、平和
The final lecture on the promise and potential of intellectual history will begin with an examination of Fenelonian novels, a now forgotten, yet hugely influential Enlightenment genre of experimental novels in political economy. In these, a systematic series of thought experiments is set up to explore alternative commercial and political arrangements (both domestic and international), while simultaneously proposing a specific model for the ethical and scientific education of a new sort of man suited for the commercial age. The reader encounters these alternative states through a traveling hero or prince, who is gradually revealed as a modern everyman and the recommended object of emulation for anyone aspiring to political and financial empowerment. Despite its literary form, the genre tackles serious subjects, at the highest intellectual standards of the time. Both these novels’ specifics, and their genre of thought experiments that utilise the emotions of characters and readers to demonstrate points in citizenship, commerce and peace, will be shown to both influence current economic thought, and excel it in some of their methods.

欧州連合における法律間の調和への挑戦：どのようにして大きな法律システムは技術とイノベーションに対応するのか

The EU has had over 50 years of experience approximating laws of its now 27 Member States. While this has often had positive social and sometimes positive economic effect, the question posed in this lecture is – can the present model of harmonization give effective results for the 21st century economy which is based on knowledgde, innovation and services. The lecture will look at the challenges that technology poses to EU harmonisation and try to answer the question of what kind of EU law-making is needed for an effective modern economy. To build the argument, three examples will be looked at. First, emerging digital technologies rely on collaboration of large numbers of users from the periphery but EU intellectual property laws are still written as if the content is distributed from the centre.Second, modern businesses depend on posessing accurate information about consumers’ tastes and preferences but privacy laws act protectively towards citizens/users. Third, effective laws depend on enforcement mechanisms but enforcing the laws in 21st century is more complex than litigating (i.e. going to regular courts). The hypothesis is that the rigid and traditionalist model of regulation need to be changed and made more flexible and give place to governance. : The agencies, users and business associations and standard-setting bodies are better at governance than states and bureaucracies are.※講義概要はこちらからご覧いただけます。

国家と国際レベルにおける知識のガバナンス：デジタル世界にはどの規制のモデルが良いのか
Since the very beginning of the Internet, there has been wide disagreement on if and how to regulate the digital world. In this lecture, we will look at how various models of regulation in the national and international context respond to the challenges of
legitimacy,development and human rights.
The first part of lecture looks at choices a national regulator needs to make when regulating cyberspace – too much regulation or too little, regulation or self-regulation, businesses or the state? The examples taken are from different countries in the world. The second part of the lecture asks whether the WTO or, indeed, any
other international forum is the right place to regulate cyberspace. The lecture will look at some success stories (domain names) as well as failures (ACTA, International Telecommunications Union). 

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討論者：
辻雄一郎先生