著者
西野 厚志
出版者
日本近代文学会
雑誌
日本近代文学 (ISSN:05493749)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.88, pp.65-80, 2013-05

Tanizaki Jun'ichiro is known to have owned a six-volume set of The Works of Plato (Bohn's Classical Library; London : George Bell and Son, 1848-54). There is some evidence that he was particularly familiar with the content of the second volume, which contained The Republic. It is in The Republic that the famous "Allegory of the Cave" appears. There are previous studies that point out the similarities between what the allegory describes and the mechanism of film projection. This paper argues that Tanizaki made use of the concept of the limitations of human perception described in the "Allegory of the Cave," as well as the concept of Idea, in those of his works that feature blindness, such as Shunkin sho (A Portrait of Shunkin,1933). The ultimate goal for Plato was for humans to see the light itself. Tanizaki seems to have wanted to warn against the danger of too much light, by transferring this allegory into the projection of films in modern times. In his time, films were made with nitrate, and they often caught fire while being projected, causing the destruction of the images on the screen. A Portrait of Shunkin and other stories with the theme of blindness can be understood as Tanizaki's expression of what may be called "the degree zero of representation" caused by excessive light.
著者
西野 厚志
出版者
[出版者不明]
巻号頁・発行日
2012

制度:新 ; 報告番号:甲3982号 ; 学位の種類:博士(学術) ; 授与年月日:2012/11/27 ; 早大学位記番号:新6153
著者
西野 厚志
出版者
日本近代文学会
雑誌
日本近代文学 (ISSN:05493749)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.88, pp.65-80, 2013-05-15 (Released:2017-06-01)

Tanizaki Jun'ichiro is known to have owned a six-volume set of The Works of Plato (Bohn's Classical Library; London : George Bell and Son, 1848-54). There is some evidence that he was particularly familiar with the content of the second volume, which contained The Republic. It is in The Republic that the famous "Allegory of the Cave" appears. There are previous studies that point out the similarities between what the allegory describes and the mechanism of film projection. This paper argues that Tanizaki made use of the concept of the limitations of human perception described in the "Allegory of the Cave," as well as the concept of Idea, in those of his works that feature blindness, such as Shunkin sho (A Portrait of Shunkin,1933). The ultimate goal for Plato was for humans to see the light itself. Tanizaki seems to have wanted to warn against the danger of too much light, by transferring this allegory into the projection of films in modern times. In his time, films were made with nitrate, and they often caught fire while being projected, causing the destruction of the images on the screen. A Portrait of Shunkin and other stories with the theme of blindness can be understood as Tanizaki's expression of what may be called "the degree zero of representation" caused by excessive light.
著者
西野 厚志
出版者
物語研究会
雑誌
物語研究 (ISSN:13481622)
巻号頁・発行日
no.9, pp.45-59, 2009-03-31

Jacques Derrida, a philosopher known for "deconstruction" is said to have made an "ethical turn" after the 1980s. The very declaration of "Deconstruction is Justice" in even the "Force of Law" (1994), was a significant event that clearly illustrated an "ethical turn". At around the same period in time, while Derrida argued against the philosophy of Heidegger in "Of Spirit" (1987), following the "ethical turn", he discusses the term "Geist", a keyword he utilizes in referring to ghostly apparitions which also suggests "spirit". This study disputes the potentials verses the risks of the "ethics" that Derrida presents, in comparing the "Force of Law" and "Of Spirit".
著者
西野 厚志
出版者
京都精華大学
雑誌
若手研究(B)
巻号頁・発行日
2015-04-01

2015年、谷崎潤一郎(1886~1965)は没後50年を迎え、決定版谷崎潤一郎全集(全26巻、2015~2017)が刊行されるなど、国内外を問わず関心が高まっている。その約半世紀にもわたった執筆活動は言論統制との衝突の連続でもあった。本研究では、自筆原稿や書簡といった肉筆資料の調査に基づいて、検閲制度との関わりを明らかにし、谷崎の文学的営為の意義について考察した。