BIGAKU（The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Western Language）

ISSN 2436-7656

About BIGAKU（The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Western Language）

BIGAKU（The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Western Language）is the annual online journal edited and released by the Japanese Society for Aesthetics (JSA). This journal mainly aims to introduce the articles published in BIGAKU (The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Japanese) to the world.

The hardcopy of the western language version was published from 1983 (No. 1) to 2006 (No. 12), and an electronic version of the journal from 2009 (No. 13) to 2021 (No.25) under the title Aesthetics.

Contribution to this journal is limited to the members of the Japanese Society for Aesthetics until notified as otherwise.

Current Issue: No. 29 (March 2025)

Articles

Le sens commun est-il possible après la postmodernité ? : l’interprétation de l’esthétique kantienne entre Lyotard et Rancière

ASANO Yudai

1-11

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Considering Feminist Aesthetics in Relation to Disinterestedness

ISHIKAWA Maya

12-22

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A Re-evaluation of the Sense of Smell: How to Feel and Express scents

IWASAKI Yoko

23-35

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Die „politische“ Wirksamkeit des verzerrten Porträts: Eine Karikaturforschung von E. Kris und E. H. Gombrich

NINOMIYA Nozomu

36-47

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Mendelssohn’s Education and Practice in Composing Variations for Piano: Exploring the Construction Principle of Interval Canons

MISHIMA Osamu

48-62

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The Theory of “Qi-yun Sheng-dong” in Early 20th-Century China

DING Yi

63-78

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Editorial Board

Editors

AKIBA Fuminori (Nagoya University, Nagoya)
GOTO Fumiko (Keio University, Tokyo)
ITO Asa (Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo)
KOGAWA Masahiro (Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya)

Editorial Secretary

KIMURA Haruka (Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya)

Contact

bigakuaesthetics@gmail.com

Previous Issues

Links to each issue are below. Click on the issue to find its table of contents and links to individual articles (pdf).