| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The philosophy of history in the early 20th century in Germany is defined as an attempt at self-understanding. In that sense, the philosophy of history provides us with the fundamental form of self-understanding. From that perspective, this study tries to comprehend Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history. Benjamin's thought is characterized by his pursuit of the state of the self through the analysis of the experience of language and imagery. The act of translation, for example, is nothing but a form of expression, in which self-understanding is accomplished by confronting a foreign language. In "The Arcades Project", he tries to detect the unconscious hopes embraced by the masses, which are expressed in cultural productions. It is the concept of "dialectic image" that makes the expression of those hopes possible. Thus the concept of history is unthinkable without executing an act of expression. Benjamin's messianism needs to be interpreted on the basis of the concept of expression.
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