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KUBOTA Hana

Department / Course Ritsumeikan University Graduate School Graduate School of Letters Major in Humanities

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2024/04～	Graduate School, Division of Letters Ritsumeikan University
2020/04～2024/03	Faculty of Literature Ritsumeikan University Graduated

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Philosophy of Memory Society

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Self and Research introduction
<Research Subject> I am conducting aesthetic research on theories of space and art. My primary focus is on the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, which I treat as central primary sources. At the same time, I am collecting information on the mechanisms by which time and space are perceived, particularly through the lens of fractal geometry. Merleau-Ponty is known for introducing phenomenology to France and for his pioneering work on the philosophy of the body. However, he is also a philosopher who frequently discussed art. Although his texts, written in the style of the French baccalauréat, can be difficult to interpret, I believe his reflections on artworks hold contemporary relevance for the understanding of art today. <Research Interests> I am particularly interested in the idea that both beauty and ethics require universality, and that internalizing these concepts necessitates training. Based on this, I am pursuing research under the hypothesis that a fractal-geometric structure may underlie the universality and internalization processes common to both domains. <Currently Reading> Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, Eye and Mind, The Visible and the Invisible, (untranslated lecture notes: Lectures on Institution, The Sensible World and the World of Expression) Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason (Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft) Robert Stecker, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: An Introduction Edmund Husserl (untranslated texts: Phantasy and Image Consciousness) Recently, I have also been skimming through Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory.