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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
Ilistory of Ideas Unit 2
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
History of Ideas Unit 3
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
History of Ideas Unit 4
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
History of Ideas Unit 5
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
History of Ideas Unit 6
'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.
·History of Ideas Unit 7
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.
History of Ideas Unit 8
• 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