著者

ルーカス M.

出版者

呉大学社会情報学部

雑誌

社会情報学研究 (ISSN:13418459)

巻号頁・発行日

no.3, pp.175-187, 1997-11

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The theme of this paper is the dual nature of the Hindu divinities,as portrayed in the mythology. There are presented as human characters,with human weaknesses,but at the same time reveal divine attributes. These attributes justify the devotion they receive,yet that devotion is perhaps more likely to be inspired by the more comprehensible human aspect of their being. I deal firstly with the fallibility of Brahma,Visnu and Siva,as presented in a story from the Bhavisya Purana. I proceed to an account of the relationship between Siva and Parvati in the Saura and Skanda Puranas,and how the God and Goddess are self-conscious of their unity of human and divine attributes. My next section deals with the figure of Krisna in the Bhagavata Purana: the love and devotion inspired by the child and youth,contrasted with the fear and trembling associated with the occasional theophanic revelation. The supreme example of this contrast occurs in the Bhagavad Gita. Here,the divine form of Krisna is incomprehensible to Arjuna in the text,and unimaginable to readers. For God to be represented at all in a way which we can appreciate we require some form of mythical or literary context,to locate our imaginations. I end with a postscript discussing O'Flaherty's dichotomy of Order and Chaos,and her association of myth with the chaotic realm. This is appropriate,since myth reveals,and uses,the human need for mtable images of the divine.

著者

梅津 顕一郎

出版者

呉大学社会情報学部

雑誌

社会情報学研究 (ISSN:13418459)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, pp.1-13, 2004

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This article is a meta-theoretical study of the ''public sphere" and ''Publicness" (=?ffentlichkeit) in the information age. Almost all studies of the Publicness (or. public sphere) have modernism or modernity as a context. However I suggest that,in the information age,public sphere studies must stress the context of postmodernity. As is generally known,the agenda of publicness (or public sphere),which is one of the most actual themes of the contemporary Information Society,origimates from critical theorists such as Habermas and Alento. In particular, the impact of Jurgen Habermas (the central figure of the second generation of Frankfort school) is very strong,so,studies of the public sphere are regarded as being one of the modernism theories. Since the Intemet-age has began,Postmodern theory has been important in the ''grown up" Information Society,with many potential applications of Internet-communication being indicated by postmodern theorists. The theorists have also indicated many problems in the information age,but they have not proposed any altematives. On the other hand,public sphere studies have been criticized concerning the reality of their communication theory. Perhaps this criticism of their theoretical strategy is justified. Indeed,their concept of ''communicative action" is too idealistic,so they cannot grasp the reality of media-mediate communication. However,the construction of the public sphere is an actual altemative in the information age. In this article, I try to set up a hypothesis about the relation between post-modernity concerning media-mediate communication and the public sphere, by connecting post-modern communication studies (e.g. analiysis of frendship and relationship s in youth culture studies) and info-public sphere theories.

著者

梅津 顕一郎

出版者

呉大学社会情報学部

雑誌

社会情報学研究 (ISSN:13418459)

巻号頁・発行日

no.2, pp.165-175, 1996-11

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This paper is a study on the sports culture within the field of youth culture. The aim of the paper is to form a paradigm of sports culture studies as a critical theory of consumption culture,through summing up the so-called "J League Boom" and showing a hypothesis on its future. Past studies on sports culture from the "communication theory" viewpoint,have covered the process of generation,exchange and reproduction of the meaning through the interaction between players and audience. But in this paper,the paradigm of discussion is further expanded to include social communication,and consumption culture with paticular emphasis on the phenomenon of fashlion. The discussion proceeds as follows : (1) This paper sums up the "J League Boom" and shows its features as consumption culture and youth culture. (2) It explains a hypothesis that the recent cooling down of the "J League Boom" means a detachment phenomenon of the masses frorn a closed soccer maniacs' world. (3) It shows that "otaku-ka"-the sophisticated transformation from fanatics' communication style,has been advanced in the consumption culture of the1980's. (4) It studies cultural and social functions of watching sports (games).