著者

徐 英瑾

出版者

西田哲学会

雑誌

西田哲学会年報 (ISSN:21881995)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, pp.116-138, 2016 (Released:2020-03-21)

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Whereas Kuki Shūzō’s philosophy has been typically viewed as a systemic response to continental philosophical trends like phenomenology, this article is intended to argue that Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language can offer an equally fruitful interpreting framework for Kuki’s aesthetics expressed in his The Structure of Iki. The parallelisms between the two philosophers can be unpacked as below:(a)both philosophers focus on the linguistic activities of ordinary people;(b)both philosophers tend to identify the implicitly functioning mechanism of authority either in language-games (in a general sense)or in those related to“iki”(in a more specific sense);(c) both philosophers share a deep understanding of what significant roles that “samples”do play in relevant language games. Moreover, Kuki’s elaboration of the so-called“hexahedral of aesthetical values”substantially reveals the cross-cultural dimensions of his aesthetics, i.e., dimensions that would greatly facilitate some further dialogues between Asian aesthetic values and their western counterparts.