An intellectual historical study on diagrammatic expressions in symptomatic knowledge

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370081
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Jun 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (10251331)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: ダイアグラム / 徴候的知 / ヴァルター・ベンヤミン / アビ・ヴァールブルク / W・G・ゼーバルト / 写真 / 歴史的記憶

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I made a comparative study on diagrams, which Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg and other scholars used in their manuscripts, as intermediate between academic discourse and image to analyze the rules and cultural backgrounds that diagrams have in common as an expression of symptomatic knowledge. In addition, I investigated photographs that W. G. Sebald composed with his texts as a kind of diagram to show that these photographs evoke historical memory as symptomatic knowledge.

Free Research Field

思想史