The relation between aesthetics and politics and the view on history/temporality of Expressionism, conservative revolution and Nazism

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K02237
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics and studies on art
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Ishida Keiko 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 准教授 (40529947)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: ファシズム / ナチズム / 保守革命 / 表現主義 / モダニズム / 美学と政治 / K・H・ボーラー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focused on the sense of time common to expressionism, the conservative revolution, and Nazism, and aimed to examine the relationship between aesthetics and politics in this period from a comprehensive perspective. This study reveals that modernism, conservative revolution, and Nazism have differences in the sense of time, while approaching each other in the sense of suddenness or immediacy. It was also found that the intersection of aesthetics and politics in that period could occur in such fluctuations and reversals in such sense of time. The results of this study have been published through presentations and papers.

Free Research Field

美学・芸術学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

歴史/時間への感覚という点から20世紀初頭ドイツにみられる美学と政治が交わる思考について明らかにしようと試みる本研究によって、モダニズムおよびドイツ美学研究の死角を照らし出すことができた。また、美と政治の連携のメカニズムの一端を解明することによって、本研究は政治における現在の危機、すなわち、世界のいたるところでナショナリズムや民族主義が噴出し、政治の世界で美や世界の再―表象化を求める動きが強く現れてきている危機にたいして、その危機の在処を指摘し批判しうるひとつの手がかりを提示しえたと考える。