Critical Examination of the Relationship between the Aesthetics and Politics of the Sublime in Fascism

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00133
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01050:Aesthetics and art studies-related
• 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): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: ファシズム / ナチズム / 崇高 / 美学 / 芸術

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines the relationship between the aesthetics of the sublime and politics in the context of fascism, analyzes how the aesthetics of the sublime was represented and used in the visual representations of fascism from multiple perspectives, and reveals how the traditional sublime is transformed in the “populist” politics of fascism. During the research period, I also took up the issue of visual representation in Japanese fascism, but in particular, I focused on the art and architecture of Nazism, which had not so far been studied extensively, and were able to elucidate the nature of its aesthetics and art through specific analysis. The results of his research have been published in a number of articles and books.

Free Research Field

美学・芸術論

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまで崇高の美学がファシズムの政治やファシズム表象との関係性から論じられることは稀であり、その考察は十分に行われてこなかった。本研究の取り組みによって、崇高の美学の研究に新たな見解と解釈の道を切り拓くことができたと考える。
また、今日の政治には、ポピュリスムやアンチ・グローバリズムの傾向において、新たな全体性と中心の創出への要求が認められるが、その際には崇高の感情が利用されることもある。研究はそうした状況に対し美学と政治の連携のひとつのパターンを顕在化することによって、その連携の危険と兆候を示し、今日の状況に対処するためのひとつの手がかりを提供しえたと考える。