KIRWAN,James Francis Edmund - Faculty of Letters General Department of Humanities Department of Cross-Cultural Studies

KIRWAN, James Francis Edmund

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Faculty of Letters General Department of Humanities Department of Cross-Cultural Studies

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Professor Apr. 1,2004

Academic Degrees

Jul. 1989 University of Edinburgh

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Research Publications

No.	Type of publication	Date of publication (Date of presentation)	Title	Type of research result	Jointly authored or single authored	Publisher and journal name	Volume number
1	Organizer24	2020/2/14～2020/2/182020,02,14,2020,02,18	International Symposium: (Im)Perfectionist Aesthetics
2	Chapter or Section5	2020～2020,00,00,,,	Aesthetic and Moral		Single-Author	Endre Szécsényi (ed.) Aesthetics, Nature and Religion: Ronald W. Hepburn and His Legacy (Aberdeen University Press)	pp. 69-89
3	International academic conference8	2020～2020,00,00,,,	The Aesthetics of Imperfection		Single-Author
4	Papers1	2019～2019,00,00,,,	The Unconscious Grounds of Aesthetic Experience		Single-Author	Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology	6:2, pp. 153-166
5	Academic presentation7	2019～2019,00,00,,,	The Aesthetics of Perfection		Single-Author
6	Chapter or Section5	2018～2018,00,00,,,	The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime		Single-Author	Temenuga Trifonova (ed.) Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime (Routledge)	pp. 64-73
7	Papers1	2018～2018,00,00,,,	The Aesthetic Idea as the Essence of the Aesthetic		Single-Author	Espes: Journal of Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia and Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture	Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 24-29
8	Papers1	2018～2018,00,00,,,	Aesthetic and Moral		Single-Author	Journal of Scottish Thought	Vol. 10, pp. 69-89
9	Chapter or Section5	2017～2017,00,00,,,	Coleridge on Beauty: Aesthetic Contemplation as Revelation		Single-Author	Peter Cheyne (ed.) Coleridge and Contemplation (Oxford University Press)	pp.47-59
10	International academic conference8	2017～2017,00,00,,,	The Aesthetics of Perfection		Single-Author
11	International academic conference8	2017～2017,00,00,,,	The Aesthetic Idea as the Essence of the Aesthetic (video presentation)		Single-Author
12	International academic conference8	2016～2016,00,00,,,	The Aesthetics of Art and Mass Culture: Does Art Have Any Aesthetic Value?		Single-Author
13	Open class14	2015/10～2015,10,00,,,	Moral Experience
14	Open class14	2015/10～2015,10,00,,,	Moral Responses and Moral Judgements
15	International academic conference8	2015～2015,00,00,,,	Coleridge on Beauty: Aesthetic Contemplation as Revelation		Single-Author
16	International academic conference8	2015～2015,00,00,,,	Immunity and the Infection of Thought		Single-Author
17	International academic conference8	2015～2015,00,00,,,	Coleridge on Beauty: Aesthetic Contemplation as Revelation		Single-Author
18	Papers1	2014～2014,00,00,,,	没有审美的美学		Single-Author	第欧根尼	59 (1) pp. 33-43
19	Papers1	2012～2012,00,00,,,	Aesthetics Without the Aesthetic?		Single-Author	Diogenes	59 (1-2), pp. 177-183
20	International academic conference8	2012～2012,00,00,,,	The Imperialism of Criticism: Reading Dickens		Single-Author
21	Papers1	2011～2011,00,00,,,	Esthétiques sans esthétique		Single-Author	Diogène	No. 233-234 pp. 253-263
22	International academic conference8	2010～2010,00,00,,,	Evil in Aesthetics		Single-Author
23	International academic conference8	2010～2010,,,,,	Is there an eighteenth-century exotic?		Single-Author
24	International academic conference8	2009～2009,,,,,	Hume and Aesthetic Ethicism		Single-Author
25	International academic conference8	2008～2008,,,,,	The Natural Idea of Beauty in Shaftesbury		Single-Author
26	Chapter or Section5	2007～2007,,,,,	Deprofessionalizing	Monograph	Single-Author	Rudolphus Teeuwen and Steffen Hantke (eds) Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labour in Higher Education (Rodopi)
27	International academic conference8	2006～2006,,,,,	Eighteenth Century Aesthetics: A Lost Discipline		Single-Author
28	Book2	2005～2005,,,,,	Sublimity: The Non-rational and the Irrational in the History of Aesthetics		Single-Author	New York and London; Routledge	218pp.
29	Academic presentation7	2005～2005,,,,,	On Being True to the Earth
30	Book2	2004～2004,,,,,	The Aesthetic in Kant: A Critique		Single-Author	New York and London; Continuum	208pp
31	Papers1	2003～2003,,,,,	The Mysterious East			Selected Papers of the 15th International Congress of Aesthetics, edited by Kiyokazu Nishimura et al	pp.133-141
32	Book review6	2003～2003,,,,,	Review of Rajan and O'Driscoll (eds) After Poststructuralism			Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques	23/3, pp.206-208
33	Academic presentation7	2002/11/6～2002,11,06,,,	The Aesthetic Reaction
34	Book2	2002～2002,,,,,	Vicarious Edification: Radcliffe and the Sublime		Co-author	The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment	pp.224-245
35	Papers1	2002～2002,,,,,	Skrivnostni Vzhod			Borec	LIV , pp. 191-205
36	Book review6	2002～2002,,,,,	Review of Wendy Steiner The Trouble With Beauty [Venus in Exile]			The British Journal of Aesthetics	42/3, pp.335-337
37	Academic presentation7	2002～2002,,,,,	Aesthetic Preference and Spiritual Status: Our Interest in Disinterestedness
38	Book2	2001～2001,,,,,	The Postmodernist's Journey Into Nature: From Philo of Alexandria to Pocahontas and back again, by way of Jean-François Lyotard		Co-author	the USA of Yesterday and Today	pp.33-52
39	Book2	2001～2001,,,,,	”The claim to a nobler motive”: morality,reason,and the sublime in Kant		Co-author	Debates on Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century: Questions of Theory and Practice/Theories et debats esthétiques au dix-huitième siècle: Elements d'une enquete	pp.17-42
40	Book2	2001～2001,,,,,	Akutagawa Ryunosuke		Co-author	Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms, two volumes	pp.30-31
41	Book review6	2001～2001,,,,,	Review of Michele Marra (ed.) Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader			The British Journal of Aesthetics	41/3, pp.347-349
42	Book review6	2001～2001,,,,,	Review of Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell (eds) Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts			The British Journal of Aesthetics	41/4, pp.453-455
43	Academic presentation7	2001～2001,,,,,	The Mysterious East			Published in selected papers from the conference and, in Slovenian translation, as 'Skrivnostni Vzhod' in Borec
44	Papers1	2000～2000,,,,,	An Essay on Postmodern Sensibility, Not: Or, Observations on the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century, together with some Reflections Applicable, Significantly Enough, to the Examination of Other Periods	In-house publication		The Kobe City University Journal	51 pp.67-81
45	Papers1	2000～2000,,,,,	The Usefulness of Kant's Distinction Between Free and Dependent Beauty	In-house publication	Single-Author	JTLA (Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Aesthetics)	25,pp.67-81
46	Book review6	2000～2000,,,,,	Review of Pauline von Bonsdorff and Arto Haapala (eds) Aesthetics in the Human Environment			Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques	20, pp.86-88
47	Book2	1999～1999,,,,,	Beauty	Monograph	Single-Author	Manchester University Press
48	Book review6	1999～1999,,,,,	Review of Stephen Bronner Camus: Portrait of a Moralist	Academic Journal	Single-Author	Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques (Academic Printing and Publishing)	19 pp.392-393
49	International academic conference8	1999～1999,,,,,	The Institution of Kitsch		Single-Author
50	International academic conference8	1999～1999,,,,,	The Institution of Kitsch	Other	Single-Author	Proceedings of the American Society for Aesthetics	pp.190-199
51	International academic conference8	1999～1999,,,,,	Taste: Some Reflections on the Back of the Mirror	Other	Single-Author
52	International academic conference8	1998～1998,,,,,	The claim to a nobler motive: morality, reason, and the sublime in Kant		Single-Author
53	Papers1	1997～1997,,,,,	Eighteenth Century Irony: Hume Adrift	In-house publication	Single-Author	The Kobe City University Journal	48 pp.37-53
54	Book review6	1996～1996,,,,,	Review of Ellen Handler Spitz Museums of the Mind	Academic Journal	Single-Author	The British Journal of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press)	36 pp.188-189
55	International academic conference8	1995～1995,,,,,	The Philosophical Problem of Beauty and Art		Single-Author
56	Papers1	1994～1994,,,,,	Kant’s Aesthetics: II	In-house publication	Single-Author	Review of Shinwa Women’s College	27 pp.122-138
57	Book review6	1993～1993,,,,,	Review of Joseph Grixti The Terrors of Uncertainty	Academic Journal	Single-Author	Textual Practice (Routledge)	7 pp.542-548
58	Papers1	1992～1992,,,,,	Kant’s Aesthetics: I	In-house publication	Single-Author	Review of Shinwa Women’s College	25 94-118
59	Papers1	1992～1992,,,,,	Interpretation: The Exclusion of the Expletive	In-house publication	Single-Author	Shinwa Studies in English Linguistics and Literature	12 pp.1-26
60	Papers1	1991～1991,,,,,	Beauty	In-house publication	Single-Author	Review of Shinwa Women’s College	24 pp.1-26
61	Papers1	1991～1991,,,,,	The Heavenly and Vulgar Venus	In-house publication		Shinwa Studies in English Linguistics and Literature	11 pp.1-13
62	Book2	1990～1990,,,,,	Literature, Rhetoric, Metaphysics: Literary Theory and Literary Aesthetics	Monograph	Single-Author	Routledge	219
63	Papers1	1990～1990,,,,,	Interpretation and Authority	In-house publication	Single-Author	Shinwa Studies in English Linguistics and Literature	1-6

OrganizerInternational Symposium: (Im)Perfectionist AestheticsKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2020/2/14～2020/2/18Kansai University, Japan

Chapter or SectionAesthetic and MoralSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis EdmundEndre Szécsényi (ed.) Aesthetics, Nature and Religion: Ronald W. Hepburn and His Legacy (Aberdeen University Press)pp. 69-892020～

International academic conferenceThe Aesthetics of ImperfectionSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2020～International Symposium: (Im)Perfectionist AestheticsKansai University, Japan

PapersThe Unconscious Grounds of Aesthetic ExperienceIn refereedSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis EdmundJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology6:2, pp. 153-1662019～

Academic presentationThe Aesthetics of PerfectionSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2019～69th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for AestheticsKansai University, Japan

Chapter or SectionThe Popular Sublime and the Notional SublimeSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis EdmundTemenuga Trifonova (ed.) Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime (Routledge)pp. 64-732018～

PapersThe Aesthetic Idea as the Essence of the AestheticIn refereedSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis EdmundEspes: Journal of Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia and Institute of Aesthetics and Art CultureVol. 7, No. 1, pp. 24-292018～

PapersAesthetic and MoralIn refereedSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis EdmundJournal of Scottish ThoughtVol. 10, pp. 69-892018～

Chapter or SectionColeridge on Beauty: Aesthetic Contemplation as RevelationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis EdmundPeter Cheyne (ed.) Coleridge and Contemplation (Oxford University Press)pp.47-592017～

International academic conferenceThe Aesthetics of PerfectionSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2017～International Symposium: (Im)Perfectionist AestheticsUniversity of Tokyo, Japan

International academic conferenceThe Aesthetic Idea as the Essence of the Aesthetic (video presentation)Single-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2017～International Conference: Coordinates of Aesthetics, Art and Culture III, University of PrešovUniversity of Prešov, Slovakia

International academic conferenceThe Aesthetics of Art and Mass Culture: Does Art Have Any Aesthetic Value?Single-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2016～XXth International Congress of Aesthetics organized by the International Society for AestheticsSeoul National University, Korea

Open classMoral ExperienceKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2015/10～School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and Environment, Keele UniversityKeele University

Open classMoral Responses and Moral JudgementsKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2015/10～Department of Philosophy, Durham UniversityDurham University

International academic conferenceColeridge on Beauty: Aesthetic Contemplation as RevelationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2015～International Conference: Coleridge and Contemplation, Notre Dame UniversityNotre Dame University, Kyoto, Japan

International academic conferenceImmunity and the Infection of ThoughtSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2015～International Conference: Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection, KU LeuvenKU Leuven, Belgium

International academic conferenceColeridge on Beauty: Aesthetic Contemplation as RevelationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2015～International Conference: Coleridge, Contemplation, and the Ordination of ThoughtCambridge University, UK

Papers没有审美的美学In refereedSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund第欧根尼59 (1) pp. 33-432014～陆象淦译

PapersAesthetics Without the Aesthetic?In refereedSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis EdmundDiogenes59 (1-2), pp. 177-1832012～

International academic conferenceThe Imperialism of Criticism: Reading DickensSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2012～International Conference: The Dickens World organized by the Centre for Advanced Study, Department of English, Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur UniversityJadavpur University, India

PapersEsthétiques sans esthétiqueIn refereedSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;DiogèneNo. 233-234 pp. 253-2632011～translated by France Grenaudier-Klijn

International academic conferenceEvil in AestheticsSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund2010～XVIIIth International Congress of Aesthetics organized by the International Society for AestheticsPeking University, China

International academic conferenceIs there an eighteenth-century exotic?Single-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;2010～Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesOxford, UK

International academic conferenceHume and Aesthetic EthicismSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;2009～Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesOxford, UK

International academic conferenceThe Natural Idea of Beauty in ShaftesburySingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;2008～Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesOxford, UK

Chapter or SectionDeprofessionalizingIn refereedMonographSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Rudolphus Teeuwen and Steffen Hantke (eds) Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labour in Higher Education (Rodopi)2007～

International academic conferenceEighteenth Century Aesthetics: A Lost DisciplineSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;2006～Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesOxford, UK

BookSublimity: The Non-rational and the Irrational in the History of AestheticsSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;New York and London; Routledge218pp.2005～

Academic presentationOn Being True to the EarthKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;2005～Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Australia-New Zealand), Monash University, Australia,

BookThe Aesthetic in Kant: A CritiqueSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;New York and London; Continuum208pp2004～

PapersThe Mysterious EastKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Selected Papers of the 15th International Congress of Aesthetics, edited by Kiyokazu Nishimura et alpp.133-1412003～

Book reviewReview of Rajan and O'Driscoll (eds) After PoststructuralismKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques23/3, pp.206-2082003～

Academic presentationThe Aesthetic ReactionKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;2002/11/6～the Department of Philosophy of Ljubljana University

BookVicarious Edification: Radcliffe and the SublimeCo-authorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Steven Rosendale;;The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environmentpp.224-2452002～

PapersSkrivnostni VzhodKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;BorecLIV , pp. 191-2052002～

Book reviewReview of Wendy Steiner The Trouble With Beauty [Venus in Exile]KIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;The British Journal of Aesthetics42/3, pp.335-3372002～

Academic presentationAesthetic Preference and Spiritual Status: Our Interest in DisinterestednessKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;2002～XXII International Colloquium 'Hegemony in Art and Culture', Ljubljana, Slovenija

BookThe Postmodernist's Journey Into Nature: From Philo of Alexandria to Pocahontas and back again, by way of Jean-François LyotardCo-authorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;the USA of Yesterday and Todaypp.33-522001～

Book”The claim to a nobler motive”: morality,reason,and the sublime in KantCo-authorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Élisabeth Décultot;Mark Ledbury;Debates on Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century: Questions of Theory and Practice/Theories et debats esthétiques au dix-huitième siècle: Elements d'une enquetepp.17-422001～

BookAkutagawa RyunosukeCo-authorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Margaretta Jolly;Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms, two volumespp.30-312001～

Book reviewReview of Michele Marra (ed.) Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A ReaderKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;The British Journal of Aesthetics41/3, pp.347-3492001～

Book reviewReview of Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell (eds) Politics and Aesthetics in the ArtsKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;The British Journal of Aesthetics41/4, pp.453-4552001～

Academic presentationThe Mysterious EastKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Published in selected papers from the conference and, in Slovenian translation, as 'Skrivnostni Vzhod' in Borec2001～XVth International Congress of Aesthetics organized by the International Society for Aesthetics, Tokyo, Japan

PapersAn Essay on Postmodern Sensibility, Not: Or, Observations on the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century, together with some Reflections Applicable, Significantly Enough, to the Examination of Other PeriodsIn-house publicationKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;;The Kobe City University Journal51 pp.67-812000～

PapersThe Usefulness of Kant's Distinction Between Free and Dependent BeautyIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;JTLA (Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Aesthetics)25,pp.67-812000～

Book reviewReview of Pauline von Bonsdorff and Arto Haapala (eds) Aesthetics in the Human EnvironmentKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques20, pp.86-882000～

BookBeautyIn refereedMonographSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Manchester University Press1999～

Book reviewReview of Stephen Bronner Camus: Portrait of a MoralistIn refereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques (Academic Printing and Publishing) 19 pp.392-3931999～

International academic conferenceThe Institution of KitschIn refereedSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;1999～Pacific Meeting of the American Society for AestheticsMonterey, USA

International academic conferenceThe Institution of KitschIn refereedOtherSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Proceedings of the American Society for Aestheticspp.190-1991999～

International academic conferenceTaste: Some Reflections on the Back of the MirrorIn refereedOtherSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;1999～Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and PsychologyWarwick, UK

International academic conferenceThe claim to a nobler motive: morality, reason, and the sublime in KantIn refereedSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;1998～East-West Seminar/International Society for Eighteenth Century StudiesBordeaux, France

PapersEighteenth Century Irony: Hume AdriftUnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;The Kobe City University Journal48 pp.37-531997～

Book reviewReview of Ellen Handler Spitz Museums of the MindIn refereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;The British Journal of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press)36 pp.188-1891996～

International academic conferenceThe Philosophical Problem of Beauty and ArtSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;1995～XIIIth International Congress of Aesthetics/International Society for AestheticsLahti, Finland

PapersKant’s Aesthetics: IIUnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Review of Shinwa Women’s College27 pp.122-1381994～

Book reviewReview of Joseph Grixti The Terrors of UncertaintyIn refereedAcademic JournalSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Textual Practice (Routledge)7 pp.542-5481993～

PapersKant’s Aesthetics: IUnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Review of Shinwa Women’s College25 94-1181992～

PapersInterpretation: The Exclusion of the ExpletiveUnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Shinwa Studies in English Linguistics and Literature 12 pp.1-261992～

PapersBeautyUnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Review of Shinwa Women’s College24 pp.1-261991～

PapersThe Heavenly and Vulgar VenusUnrefereedIn-house publicationKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Shinwa Studies in English Linguistics and Literature 11 pp.1-131991～

BookLiterature, Rhetoric, Metaphysics: Literary Theory and Literary AestheticsIn refereedMonographSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Routledge2191990～

PapersInterpretation and AuthorityUnrefereedIn-house publicationSingle-AuthorKIRWAN,James Francis Edmund;Shinwa Studies in English Linguistics and Literature1-61990～