Adorno's Philosophy of History

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00041
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01010:Philosophy and ethics-related
• Research Institution: Kokugakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Fujino Hiroshi 國學院大學, 文学部, 教授 (50295440)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: アドルノ / 歴史哲学 / 美学 / 弁証法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

First, the Principal Investigator organized a Study Group on Aesthetic Theory which were held almost monthly for five years, with 5 to 10 participants. Second, the Principal Investigator visited the Benjamin Archive in Berlin five times to read and write out Adorno's "Lectures on Aesthetics 1961/62" and "Lectures on the Philosophy of History 1957". Since 2006, the "Study Groups on Aesthetic Theory" has been reading and discussing Adorno's philosophical masterpieces "Negative Dialectic" and "Aesthetic Theory" in the original texts. In parallel, we have been reading "Lectures on Aesthetics 1958/59," and a project to translate and publish these lectures, which are important for understanding Adorno's aesthetics, was born, and we have been working on the translation with the cooperation of the Study Group members. The translation has been completed and the manuscript is now in the editing stage.

Free Research Field

Social Philosophy and Aesthetics

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

アドルノの哲学的思考の中心には美学・芸術論がある。けれどもその唯一の体系的著作である『美的理論』は難解を極め、しかも邦訳の質が極めて低いため、日本のアドルノ研究は未だにアドルノ美学の全貌を捉えられずにいる。
申請者が主催する共同研究グル-プ「美学理論研究会」はアドルノのこの美学上の主著を原典で読み議論するというところから出発し、先ず2019年に研究成果を共著『アドルノ美学解読』において公にした。次いで、極めて懇切丁寧に語られたアドルノ『美学講義1959/60』の共同翻訳に着手し、近く刊行される。日本のアドルノ美学の研究は、この両書によって礎石を置かれたと考える。