Aesthetics of Cultural Chiasm

大部谷夏教授应邀参加了由高建平教授（中国）在第十七届国际美学大会（土耳其安卡拉）上举办的“亚洲美学的多元化”研讨会，并发表了题为“日本美学在多大程度上是亚洲的？《现代日本的自我形象》。本文的目的是从美学的角度来说明“欧洲”和“亚洲”的概念是如何在欧洲确立的，以及它们在亚洲是如何被接受和批评的。本文是本项目的主要成果之一，也是下一个项目的先导。Otabe还被邀请参加Rikkyo大学2008年洪堡-Kolleg会议，提交了一篇论文，其中他论述了柳宗悦的“形”概念。他澄清说，“形”的概念可以被理解为一种“惯习”，并提出了一个假设，即日本现代美学是文化差异的产物。作为《世界音乐词典》的合编者出版他认为，当代世界文化必须从这种与文化适应相伴随的作用和反应机制的角度来考虑。他成功地将日本现代音乐定位在全球化的语境中。他在《作为文化的版权》一文中，以日本现代音乐为例，阐明了欧洲的版权观念一旦被非欧洲地区采用，就会使当地文化退化。

Tanehsia Otabe, the head investigator, was invited to the symposium "Diversified Aesthetics in Asia" organized by Prof. Gao Jianping (China) at the XVIIth International Conference of Aesthetics (Ankara, Turkey) and presented a paper entitled "To What Extent Are Japanese Aesthetics Asian? On the Self-Images of Modern Japan". The aim of the paper was to show from an aesthetic point of view how the ideas "Europe" and "Asia" were established in Europe and how they were received and criticized in Asia. This presentation is one of the main results of this project and also a precursor of the next project. Otabe was also invited to the Humboldt-Kolleg 2008 at the Rikkyo University to present a paper in which he dealt with the concept of `kata' of Soetsu Yanagi. He clarified that the concept of `kata' can be grasped as a sort of `habitus' and posed a hypothesis that Japanese modern aesthetics is a product of cultural chiasm.Hiroshi Watanabe, another investigator, published as a coeditor "Dictionary of World Music" in which he argued that the contemporary culture in the world must be considered from a view point of such mechanism of action and reaction that accompanies the acculturation between the west and the east; and he succeeded in positioning Japanese modern music in a globalized situation. In his article "Copyright as Culture", taking modern Japanese music into consideration as an example, he clarified that the European idea of copyright, once adopted by non-European regions, tends to degenerate their local culture.