Arihiro Fukuda

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Arihiro FUKUDA
Born(1963-01-19)January 19, 1963
DiedNovember 16, 2003(2003-11-16) (aged 40)
Other names福田 有広
Occupationhistorian

Arihiro Hoeber Fukuda (福田 有広, Fukuda Arihiro, January 19, 1963 – November 16, 2003) was a Japanese

political thought, particularly the republican the ideas of James Harrington, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Niccolò Machiavelli
.

Life and work

Fukuda received an

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.[1]

Following his return to Japan, Fukuda retained close ties to academia in the UK. His Oxford college,

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.[2]

Contributions to scholarship

One of Fukuda's main contributions to the history of political thought is a critique of

Eric M. Nelson, Fukuda has argued for seeing Renaissance republicanism as not only a political structure, but also as an ethical position.[5]

In Sovereignty and the Sword, Fukuda is credited with offering a new interpretation of Harrington's ideas on republicanism,[6][7] based on a "post-Pocockian analysis".[6]

Selected works

  • Fukuda, Arihiro (1997). Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
    OCLC 36207536
    .
  • Fukuda, Arihiro (2002). Taniguchi, Masaki (ed.). Demokurashī no seijigaku = Politics and democracy (in Japanese). Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai. .
  • Fukuda, Arihiro (2005) [2001]. "Japanese Haiku". In .

References

  1. ^ Oxford University Press: Sovereignty and the Sword: Arihiro Fukuda Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "ICCLP ProfessorsList". Archived from the original on 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
  3. ^ Inuzuka, Hajime (March 2006). "Arihiro Fukuda (1964-2003): His Works and Achievements" (PDF). Discussion Paper Series, No. F-122. Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
  4. ISSN 0143-781X
    . Retrieved 2008-12-05.
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