著者

森岡 卓司

出版者

山形大学人文学部

雑誌

山形大学人文学部研究年報

巻号頁・発行日

no.11, pp.124-107, 2014-03

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In his discussion of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, Tamaki Saito highlights the implications of what he terms 'verbal ataxia.' According to him, verbal ataxia is coterminous with various currents and trends of post-WWII Japanese literary criticism while, meanwhile, it has now emerged as the crux of the symbolic order that underlies human communication in post-quake Japan. This paper has two aims. Firstly, to clarify the historical context behind a literary criticism where 'literature' and 'reality' are intertwined; secondly, to appraise verbal ataxia as an element that suppresses the human mind as a moral agent. The focus of my analysis is Genichiro Takahashi's Koisuru Genpatsu, along with critiques by Toshinao Sasaki and Norihiro Kato.