Zapraszamy w środę, 24 maja, o godz. 13:00 do sali 119 na wykład prof. Kantaro Ohashi pt. Recent Trends of Nostalgia in Japanese Culture.

Wykład odbędzie się w języku angielskim.

 

Abstrakt wykładu:

My presentation aims at analyzing aesthetic problem around the concept of nostalgia, which influences us in several cultural aspects.

  The aim of this research project is to search for the source of its appealing power, by focusing on the aesthetico-political aspect of nostalgia. In my opinion, sense of nostalgia not only gives us a strong attachment to the past but also it has its gathering force, which is to say, mental mobilization. Nostalgia may have a power to collect people through organization and orientation of collected memory.

 We prepare several steps to make clear the functions of nostalgia. First, we begin from general analyses of the concept of nostalgia. Secondly, we pose this concept as essential to modern movement, through interpretation of Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialect of Enlightenment. Thirdly, we also refer to analyses of nostalgia by French philosopher and philologist Barbara Cassin, who tries to evaluate utility of this notion through the reading of Hanna Arendt.

  After these theoretical considerations, we try to explain some nostalgic movements, seen both in cultural products and in political aspects, especially in Japan. 

 

Profil:

 

Kantaro OHASHI

 

Date of birth   

   October 14, 1973

 

General Research Theme:

Aesthetics, Epistemology and art theory (French Enlightenment and Post-modern French theories), , Intellectual History of Modern Europe, etc.

 

Professional Career

October 2015 -              Associate Professor (Kobe University)

April 2014 - September 2015 Associate Professor (Kobe college of women)

April 2011 - March 2014   Lecturer (Kobe college of women)

April 2010 - March 2011   Assistant Professor (University of Tokyo)

April 2009 - March 2010   Research Fellow  (University of Tokyo)

 

Education

  Ph. D.  Arts AND Sciences, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

   (Titre of the thesis: The Materialism of Diderot -- Philosophy of cluster and transformation)

  M.A   Arts et Sciences, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

   (Titre of the master thesis: The Idea of Monstrosity in Diderot)

  M.A.  French Literature, Kyoto University (Kyoto, JAPAN)

   (Titre of the master thesis: The concept of sign in Descartes)

  B.A.  French Literature, Kyoto University (Kyoto, JAPAN)

 

Recent publications

1. Book

『Diderot's Materialism（ディドロの唯物論）』、2011（in Japanese）

 

2. Paper

 「On the inhumanity of art in the thought of Michel Foucault（ミシェル・フーコーの思考における芸術の非人間性について）」、2015 (in Japanese）

 

3. Presentation

‘L'Encyclopédie and l’Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences around the Royal Garden in Paris (L’Encyclopédie et l’Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences autour du Jardin)’, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2016. (in French)

 

4. Translation

Quentin Meillassoux, Après la finitude (translation of French into Japanese, co-translator), 2015.