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Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008) was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as 'politics is ethics done in public'. He sought to arrive at a 'politics of action', as opposed to a 'politics of thought' or of ideology, and he held that 〔Bernard Crick, (''In Defence of Politics'' ), Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, p. 118.〕 He was a leading critic of behaviouralism. ==Career== Crick was born in England and educated at Whitgift School, University College London, and the London School of Economics for his doctorate (1950–52). He began teaching at Harvard and taught at McGill before returning to Britain and the LSE in 1956, where he taught for 11 years. During his time at LSE, recollections of which appear in his contribution to ''My LSE'',〔Abse, Joan (ed)., London: Robson, 1977.〕 Crick craved for greater recognition than his Senior Lecturership signified. LSE's promotion system was notoriously slow at the time. When appointed Professor of Political Theory and Political Institutions at Sheffield in 1965 Crick told ''Beaver'', the LSE student newspaper, that he was "going to a better place from the point of view of teaching students". This may have been true but only a half-truth about his motivation: he was going quite reasonably for a professorship. Crick sponsorsed the LSE's new-formed "Society Against Racial Discrimination" (1963). The indigenous British, he remarked, should treat immigrant ethnicities "as equals – and as no more than equals". At least one member of audience wondered who proposed treating immigrants as "more than equals". The remark was an arrow without a target. Any university teacher has to manage the transition from school to university for his or her students. A first-year undergraduate in 1963, Geoffrey Thomas (later of the Philosophy department, Birkbeck College, London) recalls his naive bewilderment at a clash between authorities. Professor H.R.G. Greaves promoted one view of cabinet collective responsibility in his lectures, and Dr Crick quite another in his classes. "You might be interested to know," Thomas innocently remarked with some bafflement in a tutorial, "that your views on collective responsiibity are polar opposite to those of Professor Greaves". "Then," Crick urbanely observed, "having equal access to both of us you are in a position of unique advantage". A student learnt one difference between school and university that afternoon. Crick's lectures at LSE displayed the freshness of his language – one might approach a subject, he once said, 'with an eye well-dressed with knowledge' but this is only one of many Crickian metaphors – and his humour. Thomas recalls the following: "There are two questions: whether ideals have an influence on history and whether politics is to be sensibly seen as the attempt to achieve values. Are all ideals the product of circumstance ?" The answer might have been sententious. Instead Crick said: "Marxism grew out of one messianic, ill-tempered, bearded, boily individual". Bernard Crick was an advisor to British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock during the 1980s. When Labour came to power in 1997, Crick was appointed by his former student David Blunkett to head up an advisory group on citizenship education. The group's final report in 1998, known as the Crick Report, led to the introduction of citizenship as a core subject in the National Curriculum. He was knighted in the 2002 new years honours list for "services to citizenship in schools and to political studies".〔 He authored the 2004 Home Office book ''Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship'', which forms the basis for the new citizenship test required by all people naturalising as British citizens. He taught for a number of years at the University of Sheffield and founded the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London in 1972.〔http://www.bbk.ac.uk/politics/about-us〕 He was a Vice-President of the British Humanist Association. He took early retirement in 1984, setting off for Edinburgh to be with his partner, Una MacLean Macintosh. He remained domiciled there, becoming an ardent proponent of a Scottish parliament. Once in Scotland, Crick, who eventually came to view himself as an 'honorary Scot', engaged vigorously with political and civil society in Edinburgh and Scotland as a whole. Thus for instance, he for many years wrote a weekly column for The Scotsman newspaper and he was active in the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly, which was the precursor to the push for a full Scottish Parliament. Crick co-authored with David Millar, an influential pamphlet, entitled Making Scotland's Parliament Work.〔https://books.google.com/books/about/Making_Scotland_s_Parliament_Work.html?id=Q7ogAAAACAAJ〕 This paper helped drive the move to structure the new parliament and its committees in line with European rather than Westminster norms; this was in fact achieved and the parliament today reflects Crick and Millar's recommendations. Later in his life in Scotland Crick was delighted to be appointed Stevenson Visiting Professor at Glasgow University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stevenson Trust for Citizenship: Sir Bernard Crick )〕 Despite his frail heath at that time, Crick delivered a series of widely praised and very popular public lectures. Upon his death Glasgow University marked his contribution by establishing the Bernard Crick Memorial Lecture. Crick made many other contributions to Scottish political life, from participating in his local Labour Party, to defending Glenogle Baths from closure, to, in his last weeks of life, penning a humorous Op-Ed for The Scotsman on the chaos caused by the tram line delays in Edinburgh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bernard Crick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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