英文摘要 |
The well-known book The Structure of "iki" (1930) is a canon analyzing the Japanese traditional cultural phenomenon of "iki." Philosopher Kuki-syuzou (1888-1941) is enlightened by Martin Heidegger's hermeneutics and tries to apply the concept system of Henri Bergson, Edward Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in Being and Time to formalize vividly and dig out the meaning of "iki." Kuki-syuzou takes the characteristic of geisya 芸者 of Fukagawa 深川 in the late phase of Edo 江戸 as the basis for stretching across different artistic phenomena, such as Kabuki 歌舞伎, kiyomoto 清元 (the background music played during Kabuki performance), and ukiyoe 浮世絵 (the pictures of the floating world), and mon'you 文様 (a design pattern, frequently using geometric shapes or abstracted images of nature or man-made objects) for the purpose of drawing the ideal outline of iki." The article shows that Kuki-syuzou's sorrow of "iki" which comes from his "memory of lost father and heart of geisya" by narrating his adult experience. This article also applies "general spirit of language" which is Kuki-syuzou's definition of "iki" and method of deduction as well as specific "being of particular national character" to confirm the hermeneutical way of positivism. At the same time, in the study, I use the examples of coquetry (bitai 媚態), brave composure (ikiji 意気地), resignation (akirame 諦め) expressed by Edo geisya poetry to explain the illusory aesthetics consciousness of "iki" in the entertainment philosophy of "erotica." By surveying the process of modern Japanese "iki" transforming to "erotic" and then to "love," the article also explores the love concept and the otherness of "iki" in terms of duality of "iki." In the long run, from the modernist viewpoint of "Overcoming Modernity" resisted by Japanese intellectuals in the 1930s, this article analyzes the erotic narration points shown in the Kuki-syuzou's position of "imperialism" of Asian sameness and illustrates Japanese peripheral cultural essence and modernity of "iki," as well as demonstrates Kuki-syuzou's The Structure of "iki" employing Martin Heidegger's hermeneutics to reveal the positive meaning and historical evaluation of Asian philosophic practice. |