著者

山田 幸平

出版者

日本映像学会

雑誌

映像学 (ISSN:02860279)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, pp.13-17, 1983

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<p>&ensp;Masakazu Nakai, who proved his cultivated tastes in the illuminating speculations on arts, devoted short life to developing new conceptions of the world and 'Wissenschaft'. This eminent student of aesthetics was among the members of the generation blessed with abundant heritages from Kyoto Gakuha.</p><p>&ensp;In the days of intellectual crisis from 1920's to 40's, when some attempt was a pressing need for philosophy to be vitalized, Nakai's choice was to take up the survey of the cinema = image arts within an extensive historical perspective of Ästhetik = Kunstwissenschaft.</p><p>&ensp;Except for the short period of speculative stagnation in wartime, he was continuously concerned from the creative point of view with probing into the aesthetic implications of this genre, which would in turn present new perspectives to philosophy.</p><p>&ensp;Among the topics treated by this incisive mind are subjectivity; function; technology; and language. The keen inquiries into these issues do and will remain the best stimulation for those engaged in the theoretical and historical studies of image arts.</p>