Research on the Historical Development of the Work-Concept

我们发表了一份报告，这是第一次对艺术品概念的历史进行实质性研究。该报告包括11项研究，在数量和质量上都令人满意。这些研究的主题如下：斯多亚诗学中的作品概念、笛卡尔的作品概念、世纪英国的“描述“与“表现”、伯克的作品概念、康德与“艺术品”概念、莫扎特与“作品”、作品概念与表演实践的关系、作为现代主义作品概念的“结晶”、为了展示工作概念的历史发展，我们按照主题按时间顺序组织了这些研究。当然，这些研究很难涵盖这一概念的全部历史，但我们认为它们为今后的进一步研究奠定了基础。众所周知，今天理解的工作概念是在近代欧洲形成的。我们的许多详细研究也涵盖了这一概念在前现代和现代欧洲的形成过程，包括对表示工作的词语的解释，笛卡尔或康德等哲学家围绕工作的概念和论点，以及莫扎特等艺术家对工作的思考。我们的研究一是明确地引用了一种经典的工作观思想，二是通过对日本世纪最重要的哲学家之一西田对现代工作观的哲学转换的理解，探讨了世纪后期以来工作观的多元化发展。

We published a report as the first substantial research upon the history of the concept of artwork. The report consists of 11 studies which are satisfactory in quantity as well as in quality. The subjects of these studies are as follows ; the work-concept in the Stoic poetics, the work-concept of Descartes, " description " and "expression" in the 18th century's England, E.Burk on the work-concept, Kant and the concept of "artwork" , Mozart and "work", the relationship between the work-concept and performance practice, "crystalization" as the modernistic work-concept, Heidegger on the work-concept, and so on. In order to show the historical development of the work-concept, we organized these studies chronologically in the respect of their subjects. Needless to say these studies can hardly cover the whole history of this concept, but we think they established the foundation for the further research in the future.It has been well known that the work-concept in today's understanding had been formed in modern Europe. Many of our detailed studies also cover the formative process of this conept in pre-modern and modern Europe including the explication of the words indicating work, the concepts and the arguments around work by philosophers like Descartes or Kant, and the thoughts of artists like Mozart upon work. One of our studies refer to a classic thought dealing work clearly, and the others deal some aspects of the diversified development of this concept since the late 19th century comprehending a philosophical transformation of the modern work-concept by Nishida, one of the most important Japanese philosopher in the 20th century.