エドマンド・ウィルスン : その批評の鍵概念 (2) : 「癒し」と「歴史的想像力」
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Following the Part I of this thesis, I take up Edmund Wilson's essay "The Historical Interpretation of Literature" and firstly try to make its content explicit to the readers because we don't have so far had its translation into Japanese. The essay was originally delivered at Princeton University in 1940,and later included in the book The Triple Thinkers. It must have been conceived and formulated nearly at the time or just before he wrote "Philoctetes : The Wound and the Bow" which I analyzed before. This was also around the time he had published To the Finland Station, and therefore we can easily detect the reverberations of its scheme, that is, the tradition of historical criticism dating back to the Italian philosopher Vico in the eighteenth century. Looking back on it from now, I think it remarkable that Wilson had already paid attention to the importance of Vico, who is now becoming a larger and larger figure in the history of ideas. In his life time, Vico stated his ideas from the anti-Descartes point of view, and laid the theoretical foundations of history in defense of the humanities. He sought the authenticity of the humanities in his famous theorem "verum et factum convertuntur" and the common senses ("sensus communis") that all humans share. I tried in this thesis to regard Wilson himself as one of the disciples of Vico ranging with such historians, philosophers and men of letters as Jules Michelet, Wilhelm Dilthey, Benedetto Croce, Erich Auerbach and James Joyce. And at the conclusion I have borrowed the idea from a Japanese philosopher, Yujiro Nakamura and defined the characteristics of Wilson's historical imagination as "the clinical approach."
- 湘南工科大学の論文
- 1996-03-25
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