Education
Street Edmund Hall.
福田 有広
Street Edmund Hall.
Fukuda received an Master of Literature 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 lieutenant appeared in an expanded book form as Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars in 1997. Following his return to Japan, Fukuda retained close ties to academia in the United Kingdom. His Oxford college, Street 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 Street 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 2004-2009-29, entitled "Republicanism in Historical Contexts", was dedicated to the memory of Arihiro Fukuda. One of Fukuda"s main contributions to the history of political thought is a critique of J.G.A. Pocock"s understanding of republicanism.
According to Eric M. Nelson, Fukuda has argued for seeing Renaissance republicanism as not only a political structure, but also as an ethical position. In Sovereignty and the Sword, Fukuda is credited with offering a new interpretation of Harrington"s ideas on republicanism, based on a "post-Pocockian analysis".