...Philip Kaffen In 1950 Nakai Masakazu, the vice librarian of Japan’s new National Diet Library, and philosopher trained in aesthetics at Kyoto Imperial University, published an essay on cinema and contemporary aesthetics. He saw the developments of the past half century as a massive uprooting...

...Michael Lucken This article explores the contemporaneity of Japanese philosopher Nakai Masakazu (1900–1952). It starts with the reception of his work in the 1960s, a period that deeply changed not only social conventions and habits but also aesthetics. This first part is followed by an exploration...

...Leslie Pincus 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 A Salon for the Soul: Nakai Masakazu and the Hiroshima Culture Movement Leslie Pincus It was as if the intellectuals who took refuge in the countryside had been set adrift in unfamiliar seas...

... examines Nakai Masakazu's thoughts on technology as it relates to what he perceived as the disciplining of the creative, practical-political energies of the masses by capitalist commodification and specialization. Instead of only defining technology as the instrumental means of production or the technical...

... in the Japanese New Left's conception of shutaisei 主体性 (subjectivity). This article first presents the theories of subjectivity of some of the most influential thinkers in the shaping of the Japanese New Left ideology (Umemoto Katsumi, Nakai Masakazu, Yoshimoto Takaaki, Tanigawa Gan, Tokoro Mitsuko...

... . 2005 . The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film . Berkeley, CA : Stone Bridge Press . Nakai Masakazu . 1981a . “Gendai Bigaku no Kiki to Eiga Riron” (“Film Theory and the Crisis in Contemporary Aesthetics”) . In vol. 1 of Nakai Masakazu Zenshū (Collected Works of Nakai Masakazu...

... and Repetition similarly pointed out that Galois’s theory shifted the attention away from question-­ answer dichotomy toward a “premise of organization [that] itself became the problem.”17 Seeming to offer an alternative to what Nakai Masakazu...

... for Japan’s failure to produce a modern political subject, crucial, in his view, to the formation of a public sphere. Immediately following Japan’s defeat, in the towns and villages of Hiroshima, displaced philosopher Nakai Masakazu confronts Japan’s...

... Nagii” (“Moholy-­Nagy as an Experimental Photographer Photo Times 1, no. 9 (1938): 41 – 42. In the context of prewar Japan, the aesthetician Nakai Masakazu (1900 – 1952) was another proponent of the inte- gration of art, society...

... such as Umemoto Katsumi, Nakai Masakazu, Yoshimoto Takaaki, Tanigawa Gan, and Tokoto Mitsuko all embraced the theory of subjective nothingness. Ōshima's Kōshukei drew inspiration from Umemoto's theory, as well as existential philosophy such as Sartreanism, for its portrayal of the protagonist R, who in the film...

... . Mulvey Laura . 2006 . Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image . Chicago : Chicago University Press . Nakai Masakazu . 1932 . “ Rizumu no kōzō ” リズムの構造 (“The Structure of Rhythm”). Bi / Hihyō , September . Otsuka Eiji . 2001 . “Kanojotachi” no Rengō Sekigun...

... (World Culture) and Doybi (Saturday) established by philosopher Nakai Masakazu in Kyoto.51 Consider the following extracts from the institute’s founding statement: “[The institute] is not an organization representing a single political...

... this notion. Aaron Stephen Moore analyzes the notion of technology in the fascinat- ing if much-neglected work of the aesthetics philosopher Nakai Masakazu. Moore rightly calls attention to the need to grasp technology more broadly...

... of the 1950s and 1960s, have obvious resonance for the Japanese histories presented in these excellent papers. In their complex ways Nakai Masakazu, Maruyama Masao, and Et¯o Jun all struggled with issues analogous to those confronted by re...

.... 19 Nakai, “Mori Ogai’s¯ German Trilogy,” 406–414, traces the intertexts of “Maihime.” 20 As an example see Sasabuchi Tomoichi, Roman shugi no bungaku no tanj¯o [The birth of romantic literature] (Tokyo: Meiji Shoin, 1958), 757–772. Yamazaki Masakazu...

..., a tricky word itself, impossible.The term shutai appeared in film theory of the prewar period in essays by philosophers such as Nakai Masakazu and in debates over the scientific or artistic merits of nonfiction film.However, it was during...

... School thinkers as Miki Kiyoshi, Tanabe Hajime, and Nakai Masakazu sought to invent philo- sophical concepts with which to critically analyze what they perceived to be the fascist trends of the time. As we have already seen, by the end...