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写真b

 
KATAKAMI Heijiro
 
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College of Sociology Department of Sociology
Graduate School of Sociology Doctoral Program in Sociology
Graduate School of Sociology Master's Program in Sociology
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Associate Professor
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  • 専門は理論社会学と現代文化論である。テオドール・アドルノに代表されるフランクフルト学派の批判的社会理論に依拠しながら、社会的暴力や権力に対する問題、アイデンティティとコミュニケーションの問題、現代文化や芸術の可能性などに対する考察を組み合わせながら研究を行ってきた。社会理論的視座を用いて、現代文化について考察する作業も行っている。

  • Research Interests
  • sociology

  • Campus Career*
    • 4 2018 - Present 
      College of Sociology   Department of Sociology   Associate Professor
    • 4 2018 - Present 
      Graduate School of Sociology   Master's Program in Sociology   Associate Professor
    • 4 2018 - Present 
      Graduate School of Sociology   Doctoral Program in Sociology   Associate Professor
    • 4 2010 - 3 2015 
      College of Arts   Department of Letters,Course in Philosophy and Creative Writing   Assistant Professor
    • 4 2013 - 3 2015 
      Graduate School of Arts   Master's Program in Comparative Civilizations   Assistant Professor
    • 4 2013 - 3 2015 
      Graduate School of Arts   Doctoral Program in Comparative Civilizations   Assistant Professor

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    Research Areas

    • Humanities & Social Sciences / Sociology

    Research History

    • 4 2018 - Present 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   College of Sociology Department of Sociology   Associate Professor

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      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   Graduate School of Sociology Field of Study: Sociology   Associate Professor

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    • 4 2018 - Present 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   Graduate School of Sociology Field of Study: Sociology   Associate Professor

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    • 4 2010 - 3 2015 
      RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   College of Arts Department of Letters, Course of Philosophy and Creative Writing   Assistant Professor

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    Education

    • 4 2002 - 3 2007 
      Rikkyo University   Graduate School of Arts   Field of Study: Comparative Civilizations

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    • 4 2000 - 3 2002 
      Keio University   Graduate School, Division of Sociology

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      Country: Japan

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    • 4 1994 - 3 1998 
      Sophia University   Faculty of Science and Engineering

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      Country: Japan

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    Papers

    • Adorno's Adventures in Consensusland

      Rikkyo American studies ( 43 ) 32 - 52   3 2021

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    • Re-reading "Dialectic of Enlightenment" as a Sociology of Discrimination

      Heijiro Katakami

        ( 61 ) 55 - 65   2019

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    • Adorno's "The Joyful Wisdom" : Rethinking Culture Industry

      Heijiro Katakami

        ( 60 ) 123 - 133   2018

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    • Re-reading "Dialectic of Enlightenment" Excursus(1)

      Heijiro Katakami

        ( 58 ) 145 - 157   2016

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    • 肯定のまぶしさ、そして、あやうさ : 「危険な思想家」として見田宗介を読む (総特集 見田宗介=真木悠介 : 未来の社会学のために)

      片上 平二郎

      現代思想43 ( 19 ) 162 - 179   1 2016

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    • "<i>Kenji Miyazawa</i>"and Munesuke Mita in the 80's

      KATAKAMI Heijiro

      The Journal of Studies in Contemporary Sociological Theory9   105 - 116   2015

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      Munesuke Mita published the book "Kenji Miyazawa" in 1984. Many sociologists treat this book as an exception to the work of Mita because this book considers one literary man and his works and is not conventional sociology. The purpose of this paper is to locate "Kenji Miyazawa" in the overall perspective of Mita's sociological works. This work can be considered as bridging sociological thought and literary imagination. Mita thinks that Miyazawa's works represent a transformation of the "modern ego." Mita finds four forms of ontological motif in all of Miyazawa's works and Miyazawa's life; I: Embarrassment of Self, II: Fantasy of Burning Out, III: Feast of Existence, IV: Practice on the Ground. Mita extracts those moments of "turn" between the ontological forms and emphasizes the "turning" characteristic of Miyazawa.<br>Originally, Mita's attitude toward modernity was negative. He attempted to conceptualize ways to critique or relativize the modern world. However Mita "changed course" and his attitude toward modernity in the late nineties. Mita refers to the "changing" possibilities of modernity. Mita says that both contemporary and non-modern society have possibility to create freedom. And he planned a new vision of society, which combined both their possibilities. I suppose that Mita's "change of course" in the nineties originates in his consideration of Miyazawa's "change of course" in the eighties. In some parts of "Kenji Miyazawa", Mita connects Miyazawa's thought to Miyazawa's "rich" home environment. "Richness" sometimes limits Miyazawa's thought, but sometimes creates Miyazawa's fertile "change of course" feelings. I wish to consider why Mita's analysis of Miyazawa's "turn" was published in the eighties of Japan as the age of "fertility." Mita grasped the potential of "fertility" in the Japanese society of the eighties.

      DOI: 10.34327/sstj.9.0_105

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    • Dialectic of Fragments::Benjamin's Redemption and Adorno's Negation

      KATAKAMI Heijiro

      Japanese Sociological Review66 ( 2 ) 313 - 330   2015

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      <p>Walter Benjamin used the term "dialectic" to describe his theoretical stance, arguing about "dialectics at a standstill" in <i>The Arcades Project</i>. Theodor W. Adorno, however, often criticized Benjamin for his lack of dialectical sense. As such, there is a crucial distinction between both thinkers' notion of the concept." This paper considers Benjamin's concept of dialectic in comparison with that of Adorno.<br>In his doctoral dissertation, <i>The Origin of German Tragic Drama</i>, Benjamin discusses the dialectical potential of the literary device "allegory." He states that, in contrast to static and systematic "symbols," fluidity and ambiguity are the characteristics of allegory. It is these characteristics of allegory that enable us to grasp antinomies or contradictions. According to Benjamin, these allegorical fragments constitute a tragic drama as an unarranged whole, and that a dialectical narrative requires allegorical thinking.<br>The subject of allegory continues to exist in <i>The Arcades Project</i>, Benjamin's later unfinished work. Like allegory, "commodity" has the characteristics of fluidity and ambiguity, but a capitalist society, which consists of commodities, is static and systematic, namely "identical." Benjamin reinterprets commodity as allegory and introduces unarranged elements into a modern "identical" society in order to criticize it. Diving deeply into the dreams of commodities, Benjamin seeks complex images in modern society.<br>Multiple elements are condensed into a single image, which is illustrated through Benjamin's "dialectics at a standstill," describing multiplicity and the simultaneous nature of image. On the other hand, Adorno's "negative dialectics" emphasize the dynamic and causal aspects of the concept. Within this paper, two directions for the development of dialectic are explored.</p>

      DOI: 10.4057/jsr.66.313

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    • Consideration of Adorno's concept of &ldquo;concept&rdquo;

      Katakami Heijiro

      The Annual Review of Sociology2010 ( 23 ) 12 - 23   2010

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      Language:English   Publisher:The Kantoh Sociological Society  

      According to Adorno, &ldquo;identity thinking&rdquo; is the predominant mode of thinking in modern society. In this mode, the &ldquo;subject&rdquo; controls &ldquo;others&rdquo; through &ldquo;instrumental reason&rdquo;. Adorno claims that the modern form of violence derives from the subject's mastery over the &ldquo;object&rdquo;. Adorno defends the &ldquo;non-identity thinking&rdquo; and &ldquo;non-identifiable&rdquo; thing against &ldquo;identity thinking&rdquo;. From this perspective, Adorno criticizes &ldquo;positivism&rdquo; in which &ldquo;concepts&rdquo; retain control over &ldquo;objects.&rdquo; On the other hand, Adorno emphasizes that the &ldquo;concept&rdquo; has potentiality to grasp the essence of &ldquo;non-identifiable&rdquo; thing. There can be no thinking without conceptions. The purpose of this paper is to consider the dualism of Adorno's thesis on the &ldquo;concept&rdquo;. While the concept is the &ldquo;object&rdquo; of criticalness, it is also the &ldquo;medium&rdquo; of thinking in critical theory. I would analyze Adorno's argument about the &ldquo;concept&rdquo; and examine his ambiguous attitude toward &ldquo;modern reason&rdquo;.

      DOI: 10.5690/kantoh.2010.12

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    • Post-modernity and "Bildung"

      The bulletin of the Yokohama City University Humanities61 ( 3 ) 205 - 230   2010

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    • The Critical Potential of Adorno's Concept of "Tradition"

      KATAKAMI Heijirou

      Japanese Sociological Review59 ( 3 ) 600 - 618   2008

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      The purpose of this paper is to consider the critical potentiality of Adorno's concept of "tradition". Adorno, a leading figure in critical social theory, is often criticized for his cultural elitism. Focusing on Adorno's notion of tradition, I will analyze the relation between the two aspects of his social thought&mdash;radical critique of society and cultural conservatism.<br>According to Adorno, "identity thinking" is the predominant mode of thinking in modern society. In this mode, the "subject" controls the "others" and reifies them through "instrumental reason". Adorno claims that the modern form of violence stems from this mastery of the subject and "reason" over the "object" and "experience". Thus, Adorno insists that the object as a form of "non-identity thinking" should have priority over the subject. In negative dialectics, Adorno terms this attitude "the priority of the object".<br>Adorno argues that tradition is a form of the concept of the object For the subject, the "past" is given and uncontrollable. "Subjective reason," which is confronted with the past through tradition, perceives its own limit and recovers the moment of reflection. Tradition is "non-identifiable" for the "identical reason".<br>Adorno distinguishes between tradition and "traditionalism". He states that the multiple and complex character of tradition is ignored in traditionalism. Therefore, the tradition advocated by traditionalism has already been simplified and reified by the identical reason. Adorno criticizes traditionalism as one form of "modernized reason".<br>In Dialectic of Enlightenment, Adorno asserts that "All reification is a forgetting". From this viewpoint Adorno insists on the possibility of using the concept of tradition to criticize social "identity".

      DOI: 10.4057/jsr.59.600

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    • アドルノ「客観性」概念の諸位相

      片上 平二郎

      現代社会理論研究 = The journal of studies in contemporary social theory : official journal of the Society for Contemporary Social Theory ( 13 ) 23 - 37   2003

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    Books and Other Publications

    • 戦後日本の社会意識論 : ある社会学的想像力の系譜

      奥村, 隆

      有斐閣  11 2023  ( ISBN:9784641174900

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      Total pages:xiv, 384p   Language:Japanese

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    • 現代ミステリとは何か : 二〇一〇年代の探偵作家たち

      限界研, 蔓葉, 信博, 孔田, 多紀

      南雲堂  2 2023  ( ISBN:9784523266112

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      Total pages:341p   Language:Japanese

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    • 理性の病理 : 批判理論の歴史と現在

      Honneth, Axel, 出口, 剛司, 宮本, 真也, 日暮, 雅夫, 片上, 平二郎, 長澤, 麻子

      法政大学出版局  5 2019  ( ISBN:9784588010934

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      Total pages:x, 311, 5p   Language:Japanese

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    • アドルノという「社会学者」 : 社会の分光と散乱する思想

      片上, 平二郎( Role: Sole author)

      晃洋書房  2 2018  ( ISBN:9784771029828

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      Total pages:v, 223, 5p   Language:Japanese

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    • 「ポピュラーカルチャー論」講義 : 時代意識の社会学

      片上, 平二郎( Role: Sole author)

      晃洋書房  7 2017  ( ISBN:9784771028982

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      Total pages:xi, 270, 3p   Language:Japanese

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    • 作田啓一vs.見田宗介

      奥村, 隆( Role: Joint author)

      弘文堂  11 2016  ( ISBN:9784335551833

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      Total pages:398p   Language:Japanese

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    • 戦後思想の再審判 : 丸山眞男から柄谷行人まで

      大井, 赤亥, 大園, 誠, 神子島, 健, 和田, 悠, 池田, 雄一( Role: Joint author)

      法律文化社  10 2015  ( ISBN:9784589036988

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      Total pages:vi, 266, xvip   Language:Japanese

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