Aesthetics from Science of National Literature with a special reference to Okazaki Yoshie's concept of Science of Japanese Literature (Nihon Bungei-gaku)

本研究项目着眼于如何构建本土日本美学这一更广泛的研究兴趣，试图阐明冈崎吉惠建立一门创新的日本文学科学的有趣挑战。他称之为“日本文理”（日本文理）。国学有着悠久的历史，在明治时代沿袭了西学的风格和形式，转变为国学和文学的科学。换句话说，“国乐”也被要求现代化。叶贺八一是推动“国学”概念变革的大学者，他试图从文献学的角度对“国学”传统进行重新整理。冈崎是他的学生之一，但他不同意羽贺提出的“国学”似乎仍然保留了“国学”的特征，以及与日本文学研究有关的各个领域，如民俗学、人类学、语言学等。相反，冈崎提出了“国学”的概念，作为对文学意义的研究（“文学”）。冈崎利用德国文学学者的成就，将文学科学系统化。在他看来，西学文学美学似乎提出了一种理性的概念化方式、文学研究作为一门学科的系统秩序、对文学及其研究的批判态度等，这些要素将有助于解构日本学者和学术界的思维局限，从而更新日本文学科学。

With a broader research interest in how to construct indigene Japanese aesthetics in mind, this research project tries to clarify OKAZAKI Yoshie's interesting challenge to establish an innovative science of Japanese literature. He called it as "Nihon Bungei-ron" (science of Japanese literature). National learning ("koku-gaku") has had a long history, which transformed into science of national learning and literature ("kokubun-gaku") in the Meiji era, following the style and form of Western learning. In other words, "koku-gaku" was also requested to be modernized. Haga Yaichi was a great scholar who promoted the conceptual change of "koku-gaku", trying to rearrange the tradition of "koku-gaku" in the direction of philology. Okazaki was one of his students, but he could not agree with Haga in that Haga's proposal of "kokubun-gaku" seemed to retain still the character of "koku-gaku" and various fields relating to study on Japanese literature such as folklore, anthropology, linguistics, etc. Instead, Okazaki suggests the concept of "kokubun-gaku" as a research on the meaning of literature ("bungei"). Okazaki made use of accomplishments of Literaturwissenschaft in Germany to systematize science of literature. To him, aesthetics of literature in Western learning seemed to be proposing a rational way of conceptualization, a systematic order of literature studies as a discipline, a critical attitude to literature and its studies, etc., those elements of which would contribute deconstruction of the limit of Japanese scholars' and academic world's mentality to update the science of Japanese literature.