Modeling to Revitalize the Classics in Aesthetics

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K00143
• 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: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Otabe Tanehisa 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科(文学部), 教授 (80211142)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 古典賦活 / 『判断力批判』 / 美学理論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The importance of classics in the humanities is widely acknowledged by scholars. However, there is not a common understanding of how to revitalize classics for contemporary relevance. Traditional exegetical studies provide an indispensable foundation for understanding classics, but they are insufficient for connecting them to the present day. This study explores avenues for bridging classics to the contemporary context by using Immanuel Kant’s "Critique of the Power of Judgment," a classic in aesthetics, as a case study. Rather than treating it merely as a historical text from two centuries ago, this study aims to actively integrate it into contemporary aesthetics theory. It attempts to construct a model for revitalizing classics and has been published in "Aesthetics" (The University of Tokyo Press).

Free Research Field

美学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

『判断力批判』を一つの例に採り、（ａ）カントの『判断力批判』から単に命題を拾い出すのではなく、むしろそこから美学的主題を拾い上げ、それらを論理的に再構成しつつ、（ｂ）さらに一方で歴史を遡りカントの議論を古代ギリシア以来の美学史の内に位置づけ、（ｃ）他方でまた同時に、カントの議論がその後の美学理論に及ぼした影響や、カントの議論の持つ（あるいは持ちうる）理論的射程について触れる、そうした三重の課題を果たす研究を行った。このことをとおして、私は古典一般を賦活すると同時に、古典を通して現代の美学理論を賦活するためのモデルを構築したと考える。