Arihiro Fukuda
{{Short description|Japanese historian}}
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| othername = 福田 有広
| alma_mater = University of Tokyo (B.A.)
St Edmund Hall, Oxford (postgraduate)
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{{nihongo|Arihiro Hoeber Fukuda|福田 有広|Fukuda Arihiro|January 19, 1963 – November 16, 2003}} was a Japanese historian who was an associate professor at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law and specialised in the history of Western political thought, particularly the republican ideas of James Harrington, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Niccolò Machiavelli.
Life and work
Fukuda received an M.Litt. degree in modern history from the University of Oxford in 1992, His master's thesis, "James Harrington and the idea of mixed government, 1642–1683", was selected for publication in the series Oxford Historical Monographs. It appeared in an expanded book form as Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars in 1997.[http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/17thC/?view=usa&ci=9780198206835 Oxford University Press: Sovereignty and the Sword: Arihiro Fukuda] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115116/http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/17thC/?view=usa&ci=9780198206835 |date=September 29, 2007 }}
Following his return to Japan, Fukuda retained close ties to academia in the UK. His Oxford college, St Edmund Hall, extended him rights of the Senior Common Room, a privilege usually reserved for college fellows. He contributed a haiku to the 2001 anthology, Chatter of Choughs, which was devoted to the heraldic symbol of St Edmund Hall, the Cornish chough.
Fukuda died suddenly on 16 November 2003.
The 18th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium held at the University of Tokyo on 2004-09-29, entitled "Republicanism in Historical Contexts", was dedicated to the memory of Arihiro Fukuda.{{Cite web |url=http://www.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~icclp/sympo-e.html |title=ICCLP ProfessorsList |access-date=2007-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703215435/http://www.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~icclp/sympo-e.html |archive-date=2007-07-03 |url-status=dead }}
Contributions to scholarship
One of Fukuda's main contributions to the history of political thought is a critique of J.G.A. Pocock's understanding of republicanism.{{cite web |url=http://jww.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publishments/dp/dpf/pdf/f-122.pdf |title=Arihiro Fukuda (1964-2003): His Works and Achievements |access-date=5 December 2008 |first=Hajime |last=Inuzuka |date=March 2006 |work=Discussion Paper Series, No. F-122 |publisher=Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo }}{{cite journal |last=Davis |first=J.C. |year=2008 |title='Epic Years': The English Revolution and J.G.A. Pocock's Approach to the History of Political Thought |journal=History of Political Thought |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=539 |issn=0143-781X |url=http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=0143-781X&volume=29&issue=3&spage=519&epage=542 |access-date=2008-12-05 }} According to Eric M. Nelson, Fukuda has argued for seeing Renaissance republicanism as not only a political structure, but also as an ethical position.{{cite journal |last=Nelson |first=Eric |year=2001 |title=Greek Nonsense in More's "Utopia" |journal=The Historical Journal |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=892 |issn=0018-246X |jstor=3133544 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X01002096 |s2cid=202309535 }}
In Sovereignty and the Sword, Fukuda is credited with offering a new interpretation of Harrington's ideas on republicanism,{{cite journal |last=Scott |first=Jonathan |year=2000 |title=Book review |journal=English Historical Review |volume=115 |issue=462 |pages=660–2 |issn=0013-8266 |doi=10.1093/ehr/115.462.660 }}{{cite journal |last=Ahnert |first=Thomas |year=2001 |title=The Varieties of Contexts in Early Stuart Intellectual History |journal=The Historical Journal |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=571–2 |issn=0018-246X |jstor=3133621 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X01001893 |s2cid=143918019 |url=https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/11871613/The_Varieties_of_Contexts_in_Early_Stuart_Intellectual_History.pdf }} based on a "post-Pocockian analysis".
Selected works
- {{cite book |last= Fukuda |first= Arihiro |title= Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars |series= Oxford Historical Monographs |year= 1997 |publisher= Clarendon Press |location= Oxford |isbn= 978-0-19-820683-5 |oclc= 36207536 }}
- {{cite book |last= Fukuda |first= Arihiro |editor-last= Taniguchi |editor-first=Masaki |title= Demokurashī no seijigaku = Politics and democracy |year= 2002 |publisher= Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai |location= Tokyo |language= ja |isbn= 978-4-13-030126-8 |oclc= 52580670 }}
- {{cite book |last= Fukuda |first= Arihiro |editor= Lucy Newlyn |editor-link=Lucy Newlyn |others= illustrated by Lucy Wilkinson |title= Chatter of Choughs: An Anthology Celebrating the Return of Cornwall's Legendary Bird |orig-year= 2001 |edition= 2nd |year= 2005 |publisher= The Hypatia Trust |location= Penzance |isbn= 1-872229-49-2 |oclc= 64309779 |pages= 116 |chapter=Japanese Haiku }}
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