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TIIE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

RESEARCH SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

IIISTORY OF IDEAS UNIT

ANNUAL REPORT 1987

Professor and Head of Unit

E. Kamenka, BA(Syd), PhD, FJ\SSA, FAIIA

Senior Fellow ~

S.L. Goldberg, BA(Melb.), BLitt(Oxf), FAIIA (till May)

Senior Research Fellow

K. Haakonssen, MagArt(Copenh), PhD(Edin)

Visiting Fellows

Emeritus Professor J.A. Passmore, ANU

Dr R.R. Brown, ANU

Dr S. Collini, Cambridge University

Professor G. Feaver, University of British Columbia

Professor Dr H. Klenner, Academy of Sciences of the DDR

Professor J. Moore, Concordia University

Mr A. Ryan, New Co 11 e ge, Oxford

Dr Cs. Varga, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Research Assistants

E.Y. Short, MA(Edin)

A. Lane BA(Qld), MA(Adel) (till March)

F. Dixon BJ\(ANU) (from April)

N. Zmijewski Mag(Warsaw) (from November)

Secretary

V. Wetselaar

Secretarial Staff

W. Hare

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The work of the HISTORY OF IDEAS UNIT continues to focus on

theoretically ~omplex conceptions, theories and ideologies necessary

for understanding or considering the human situation, knowledge,

culture and society in the modern world. Such work has covered

major topics and developments in the history of social, philosophical,

scientific, psychological, legal and aesthetic thought, the Scottish

Enlightenment, liberalism, Marxism, contemporary socialism and

communism, natural law theories and human rights. The thinkers

and developments studied have ranged over Europe, Asia, America

and Australia and from the sixteenth century to the present.

Much of the Unit's work has been devoted to the production of books ' and studies by individual members.~ Dr Brown's book Analyzing Love

appeared in the series 'Cambridge Studies in Philosophy' at the end

of the year. The Australian Academy of the Humanities and Oxford

University Press published the Academy's Symposium Utopias edited

by Professor Kamenka; a Tokyo publisher brought out a Japanese

translation of the volume Human Rights edited by Professor Kamenka

and Professor A.E.-S. Tay of the University of Sydney. With

Professors R.S. Summers of Cornell University and W.L. Twining of

the University of London, Professor Kamcnka edited the volume

Sociological Jurisprudence and Realist Theorie~ of Law published

in Berlin with contributions in French, German and English. Mr Goldberg,

on sabbatical leave after transferring to the Department of Philosophy,

R.S.S.S., in May, completed his study of Shakespeare's Antony and

Cleopatra; Professor Kamenka has written the volume on Bureaucracy

for the Blackwell's series 'Perspectives on the Past'. Dr Haakonssen

contributed the chapter on Divine/Natural Law Theories in Ethics for

the Cambridge History of Seventeenth Century Philosophy and prepared

material on natural law for a volume on the eighteenth century .

Dr Brown has been engaged on a long article on 'Australian Philosophy

in the 80s' for the Canadian Journal of Philosophy and has signed a

contract with Macmillan, New York, to produce a large anthology

Classical Political Theory - From Plato to 1 Marx. He has begun

planning a history of the origin, growth and social consequences

of deliberate social experiments, to be entitled Experimenting with

Social Life. Professor Kamenka has been commissioned to write the

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chapter on 'The Sydney School' for a volume on Philosophy in

Australia being edited by Dr J.Srzednicki of the University of

Melbourne.

Members of the Unit have continued to be active in the wider academic

world in Australia and overseas. In collaboration with the Academy

of the Humanities and with the help of Dr r.B. Smith (History, RSSS),

the Unit organised another national week-end seminar on the Ilistory

of Culture in Australia, dealing with primary schools, Anglicanism,

science, journalism, music, drama and cinema. or· Haakonssen

organised a conference in Sydney on The Liberal Tradition, funded

from outside the University, at which leading scholars from Australia .,

and overseas presented papers now Being collected for publication as

a book. Earlier, he took part in a seminar on 'Liberty in Ilwne's

Essays' held in Houston, Texas, and read papers at Johns Hopkins

University and George Mason University. Professor Kamenka read

papers to the Thirteenth World Congress of the International Association

of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy in Kobe in August and the

International Conference conunemorating 100 years since the publication

of Ferdinand Tonnies' Gemeinschaft und GeseUschaft held in Kiel in

November. Dr Ilaakonssen and Professor Kamenka have been asked to

join the Secretariat of the International Asso~iation of Philosophy

of Law and Social Philosophy, which will be located in Australia for

the next four years, and to edit the Association's International

Newsletter.

Professor Passmore spent the earlier part of this year working on

his book Serious Art and gave a seminar to History, R.S.S.S. on

editing Bertrand Russell. In May he returned to McMaster University

to resume his work there as Visiting Distinguished Professor of Russell

Studies and General Editor of the Bertrand Russell Project. The first

volumes completed as part of that project, volumes 9 and 13, are now

being made ready for publication; Professor Passmore has also made

considerable inputs into volumes 3 and 6. 1 In August Professor Passmore

represented the Australian Academy of Science at the International

. Conference on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in

Moscow. lie then attended the meeting of the Institut International

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de Philosophie, of which he is a member, and lectured at Stockholm

University.

Shorter-term visitors also played an important part in the work of ·

the Unit. Dr Csaba Varga of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

worked and gave seminars on the theoretical understanding of the

Judicial Process, the philosophy of Georg Lukacs and Marxist

theories of law. Professor George Feaver of the University of

British Columbia worked and read papers on contemporary British

political thought and the tradition of Liberalism: Professor James

Moore completed the draft of a book pn the relations between r:rancis

llutcheson and David llume and studies on John Locke and the jurists.

Dr Stefan Collini of Clare llall,~ambridge, is giving seminars in

December on moral thought and social criticism in Victorian England.

Other visitors taking part in the Unit's weekly seminars that ran

from February included Professor Jean Chesneaux of the Sorbonne,

Ors D.J. Neale and Martin Krygier of the University of N.S.W.,

Mr Alan Ryan of New College, Oxford, and Professors Donald Winch

(Sussex) and Ken Minogue (LSE). The Unit also organised two very

well-attended public lectures 'In Celebration of Great Thinkers' with

Mr Alan Ryan on Bertrand Russell and Emeritus Professor Peter Munz

of Victoria University of Wellington on Karl P~pper.

Attempts to fill the Professorial Fellowship vacated by Dr Brown

having finally proved unsuccessful during the year, the post is being

re-advertised at the level of Senior Fellow or Fellow. The Senior

Research Fellowship vacated by Dr Andrzej Walicki,who took up a Chair

of History and Slavonic Studies in the University of Notre Dame at

the end of 1986, has been advertised as a Senior Research Fellowship/

Research fellowship. It is hoped to proceed toward appointments

early in 1988.

During the year Miss Clare O'Farrell successfully submitted her thesis,

The Foucault Phenomenon. Mr Norbert Zmijewski, who completes his I .

course at the end of the year, lodged notice of his intention to submit

his thesis on the Marxist-Catholic Dialogue in Post-War Poland.

Mr Sanjay Seth, working on Marxism in India, completes his course at

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the end of the year and Mr Hong Li-Jian has commenced his studies

of Marxism and the Historiography of China, with special reference

to the Asiatic mode of production in modern Chinese Marxist thought.

With Mr Goldberg's departure from the Unit, Mrs Frances Dixon has

transferred her Ph.D. candidature to the Department of English in

the Faculties; Miss Lane resigned in March, near the expiration of

of her course, to go abroad. A new student, Mrs Lisbeth Ilaakonssen,

began work in September on the Idea of a Liberal Profession, turning

initially to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century discussion

of medicine and morals in the work of Scottish-trained doctors of

the period.

2 BLACK, A.

PUBLICATIONS

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'Hard Cases and Fiduciary Duties: a Jurisprudential Approach

to Hospital Products Ltd. v. United States Surgical

Corporation', Bulletin of the Australian Society of

Legal Philosophy, 11 (40), 35-56.

BROWN, R.

'Australia'. In Teaching and Research in Philosophy,

UNESCO, Paris, 19-47.

Analyzing Love, Cambridge U.P., 133 pp.

2 FRANCIS, M. ,

'llerbert Spencer and the Mid.1..Victorian Scientists', Annual Review ' .......

of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy

and Social Studies of Science, 4 (1986), 2-21.

'Colonial Political Culture and the Mentality of British Governors:

1825-1860', Political Science, 38(2), 133-146.

I IAAKONSSEN, K.

'Adam Smith's Science of Legislation'. In Guiliani, A. (ed.),

Modelli di legislatore e scienza della legislazione,

Perugia, 397-431.

'Review Article: Werner Schneiders Au[kldrung und Vorurteilskritik',

Rechtstheorie, 18, 121-5.

KAMENKA, E.

'Young llegelians' . In Miller, David (ed.), The Blackwell

Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Blackwell Reference,

Oxford, 552-4.

'Marxism, Communism and Social Democracy'. In Fletcher, R. (ed.),

From Bernstein to Brandt: 100 Years of German Social Democracy,

Edward Arnold, London, 212-7.

'Socialism and Utopia'. In Kamenka, E. (ed.), Utopias,

Oxford U.P., Melbourne, 69-82.

'Lukacs and Law', Bulletin of the Australian Society of Legal

Philosophy, 10(38/9), 255-63.

'Philosophy and the University' (reprint), ''1.'he Age' Monthly

Review, 6(10), 14.

'Education and the Private School', ACES Review, 13(4), 1-4.

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KAMENKA, E. (cont.)

'Revolutionary With A Human Face', The New York Ti mes Book Review, 14 June 1987, 13-4.

'The Philosopher's Task', Search 18(2), 82-5. 'The ~1dersonim1s: Philosophy and Criticism in Australia',

Quadrant XXXI(7), 60-4.

'Reviewing Our Law Schools', 'The Age' Monthly Review,

7(5), 13.

'Thinking About Education: Some Introductory Remarks'. In Moore, D. (ed.), Tlhich Is Better: External Examination

or Internal Assessment?, PACT Foundation, Canberra, 2-8.

KAMENKA, E. (ed.)

Utopias, Oxford U.P., Melbourne, vii' ,.. 193 pp. 1 1 KAMENKA, E., SUMMERS, R.S. and TWINING, W.L. (eds.)

Soziologische Jurisprudenz und realistische Theorien des Rechts [Sociological Juris prudence and Realist Theories of LawJ.

Duncker & llumblot, Berlin, XI + 381 pp.

KAMENKA, E. and TAY, A.E.-S. 1

'Kinan Oikens 1980-Luvulla' (Chinese Law in the 1980s).

In David, Rene, Nykyan Suuret Oikeusj!irjestelmat

(Contemporary Legal Systems), Finnish transl. from the 8th French ed. with an appendix on Chinese law by A.E.-S. Tay and E. Kamenka, Suomen Lakimiesliiton Kustannus Oy,

llelsinki, 299-320.

'Zurn Soziologischen Verstindnis der Gerechtigkeit'

(Toward the Sociological Understanding of Justice). In Krawietz, W. and Ott, W. (eds.), Forrnalismus und

Phli.nomenologie im Rechtsdenken der Gegenwart: Fes tgabe

fiir Alois Troller zum 80. Geburtstag, Duncker & Ilumblot, Berlin, 443-63.

'Marxist Ideology, Communist Reality and the Concept of

Criminal Justice', Criminal Justice Ethics, 6, 3-29. 'The Traditions of Justice', Law and Philosop1fy, 5, 281-313. 'Life Under Communism: The Soviet Union and China', Quadrant,

XXX(l2), 66- 72.

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• 1 KAMENKA, E. and TAY, A.E.-S. (cont.)

'Socialist Legality or Administrative Justice in the U.S.S.R.

and China?', Bulletin of the Australian Society of Legal

Philosophy, 10(38/9), 225-37.

'Law, Legal Theory and Legal Education in the People's Republic

of China', New York Law School Journal of Comparative Law,

7, 1-38.

1 KAMENKJ\, E. and TAY, A.E.-S. (eds.)

NINGEN NO J<ENRI: Somo Kindaitaki Keisei To Gendaiteki Tenkar,

transl. of Human Rights (London and New York, 1978), into

Japanese by Takashi Nishio, Miraisha, Tokyo, 260 + xiii pp.

KLENNER, H. 2 ~ 'Rechtsphilosophie im Berlin des :,.vorigen Jahrhunderts'

CThe Philosophy of Law in 19th century BerlinJ,

Staat wid Recht, 36, 2, 101-16.

MEGILL, A. 2

'The Reception of Foucault by Historians', Journal of the

History of Ideas, 48, 1, 117-41.

PASSMORE, J.A. (General Ed.)

Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Routledge & Kegan Paul,

London. Vol. 9, 630 pp.

PASSMORE, J.A. 1 TI1e Dreariness of Aesthetics' (Reprint). In Harrison, C. and

Gorton, F. (eds.), Modernism, Criticism, Realism, Harper and

Row, New York, 19-25.

'David Hume' . In Magee, B. (ed.) , The Great Phi Zosophers:

An Introduction to Western Philosophy, BBC Books, London, 144-167.

2 VARGA, Csaba.

'Judicial Reproduction of the Law in an Autopoietical System?': In

Lca.J, Culture, Science and Technology - in Furtherance of

Cross-cultural Understanding, The 13th World Congress on

Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy: Abstracts, Kobe, 200-202.

1Not a member of this University

2Former member or former visitor of the Unit