The Transformation of Aesthetics and its Cultural Border-crossing in Modern Japan

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02075
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: lee yeounsuk 一橋大学, 大学院言語社会研究科, 教授 (00232108)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 文化的越境 / 美意識の変容 / 帝国とモダニズム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I have explored how aesthetic ideas and values were transformed in modern Japan from a perspective of cultural border-crossing with a particular attention to the emergence of modern aesthetics in modern Japan and Korea. The research results from this research project were presented at the One Asia Convention held in Phnom penh of Cambodia in August 2016, at the Annual Association of Asian Studies Conference held in Seattle in the United States in March 2017, and at the conference held at Sapienza University of Rome in March 2018. In 2017 I organized an international symposium at Hitotsubashi University and the papers presented at this symposium, including my own, were later published at the journal of" Gengo shakai", vol. 12.I was able to understand the similarities and differences in the mode of confrontation between traditional aesthetics and modernity through this research.

Free Research Field

社会言語学、文化研究