Dans le cadre de la série de conférences proposées par le partenariat entre l’Université Fudan de Shanghai et l’École Normale Supérieure, une première conférence sera donnée (en anglais) par le Professeur Xu Yingjin 徐英瑾 du département de philosophie de l’Université Fudan sur «Iki and Contingency: A Reconstruction of Shūzō Kuki’s Early Aesthetic theory»
? jeudi 7 octobre 2021, de 10 heures à 12 heures (heure de Paris)
? En ligne
À propos de l'événement
Iki is the key word of Shūzō Kuki’sThe Structure of Iki, and it became one of the most widely recognized Japanese aesthetic categories mainly due to this work. However, inThe Problems of Contingency, which is Kuki’s most important philosophical work, there is no discussion of iki again, and consequently, most commentators of Kuki fail to see the correlation between his theories of iki and contingency. This lecture, by contrast, intends to provide a new interpretation of iki in the light of Kuki’s theory of contingency. The specific thesis of this lecture is that aesthetic phenomena categorized as subject to the principles of iki are positively evaluated in Japanese culture just because the consciousness of iki is just one form of the consciousness of contingency, in which the awareness of alternatives to the actual situation could produce considerable spiritual entertainment for aesthetic subjects.
