2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Theatrocracy in the history of modern aesthetics: On the relationship between aesthetics and democracy
| Project/Area Number |
26770044
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Aesthetics and studies on art
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
VAN EIKELS Kai
MENKE Christoph
ISHIDA Keiko
EBINE Takeshi
KAJIWARA Masashi
KAKIGI Nobuyuki
INOUE Yuriko
TSUCHIDA Kosuke
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 観客 / 民主主義 / 参加 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this project, I investigated the history of the term "theatrocracy," that was coined by Plato to criticize "the rule by spectators" in musical and dance performances. The term was inherited by modern thinkers, for example Rousseau, Nietzsche, Benjamin and Rancire, explicitly or implicitly, in their arguments on the relationship between art and democracy. My conclusion is that the meaning of the concept depends on the rise and crisis of the democracy in Europe. I also point out the consistently ambivalent attitude of thinkers towards "mass" audience.
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| Free Research Field |
美学
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