Organization
Faculty of Letters Professor
Title
Professor
External link
KIRWAN,James Francis Edmund
Degree
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Phd ( University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom )
Research Interests
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Aesthetics
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Ethics
Research Areas
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Theory of art practice
Education
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University of Edinburgh Graduate School, Division of Philosophy and Thought PhD
1984 - 1989
Country： United Kingdom
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University of Reading Faculty of Humanities BA, English Literature
1980 - 1983
Country： United Kingdom
Research History
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Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam Guest Researcher
2022.9 - 2023.8
Professional Memberships
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The Japanese Society for Aesthetics
Papers
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‘To What Does the Word ‘Beauty’ Refer?’ Reviewed
James Kirwan
ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics 12 ( 2 ) 13 - 27 2023
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‘The Unconscious Grounds of Aesthetic Experience’ Reviewed
James Kirwan
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 6 ( 2 ) 153 - 166 2019
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‘The Aesthetic Idea as the Essence of the Aesthetic’ Reviewed
James Kirwan
ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics 7 ( 1 ) 24 - 29 2018
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'Aesthetics Without the Aesthetic?' Reviewed
James Kirwan
Diogenes 59 ( 1-2 ) 177 - 183 2012.5
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'Esthétiques sans esthétique' Reviewed
James Kirwan, France Grenaudier-Klijn
Diogène n° 233-234 ( 1 ) 253 - 263 2012.4
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'Skrivnostni Vzhod' [The Mysterious East] Invited Reviewed
James Kirwan
Borec 54 191 - 205 2002
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‘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’ Invited
James Kirwan
The Kobe City University Journal 51 ( 1 ) 67 - 81 2000
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‘The Usefulness of Kant’s Distinction Between Free and Dependent Beauty’
James Kirwan
JTLA (Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Aesthetics) 25 49 - 60 2000
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‘Eighteenth Century Irony: Hume Adrift’
James Kirwan
The Kobe City University Journal 48 ( 7 ) 37 - 53 1997
Books
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The Futility of Philosophical Ethics: Metaethics and the Grounds of Moral Feeling Reviewed
James Kirwan（ Role： Sole author）
Bloomsbury 2022.3 （ ISBN:1350260649 ）
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Sublimity: The Non-Rational and the Irrational in the History of Aesthetics Reviewed
Kirwan, James（ Role： Sole author）
Routledge 2005.7 （ ISBN:0415966876 ）
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The Aesthetic in Kant: A Critique Reviewed
Kirwan, James（ Role： Sole author）
Continuum 2004.7 （ ISBN:0826471986 ）
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Beauty Reviewed
Kirwan, James（ Role： Sole author）
Manchester University Press 1999.8 （ ISBN:0719055725 ）
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Literature, Rhetoric, Metaphysics: Literary Theory and Literary Aesthetics (New Accents) Reviewed
Kirwan, James（ Role： Sole author）
Routledge 1990.10 （ ISBN:0415048494 ）
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Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life Reviewed
Cheyne, Peter（ Role： Contributor'Everyday Encounters with Aesthetic Imperfection and Perfection'）
Routledge 2022.12 （ ISBN:1032170093 ）
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Aesthetics, Nature and Religion: Ronald W. Hepburn and His Legacy Reviewed
Endre Szécsényi（ Role： Contributor‘Aesthetic and Moral’）
Aberdeen University Press 2020
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Coleridge and Contemplation Reviewed
Cheyne, Peter（ Role： Contributor‘Coleridge on Beauty: Aesthetic Contemplation as Revelation’）
Oxford University Press 2017.10 （ ISBN:0198799519, 9780198799511 ）
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Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime Reviewed
Trifonova, Temenuga（ Role： Contributor'The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime'）
Routledge 2017.8 （ ISBN:1138237728, 9781138237728 ）
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The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory and the Environment Reviewed
Rosendale, Steven, Slovic, Scott（ Role： Contributor‘Vicarious Edification: Radcliffe and the Sublime’）
University of Iowa Press 2002.4 （ ISBN:0877458030 ）
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From Virgin Land to Disney World: Nature and Its Discontents in the USA of Yesterday and Today Reviewed
Herzogenrath, Bernd（ Role： Contributor‘The Postmodernist’s Journey into Nature: From Philo of Alexandria to Pocahontas and back again, by way of Jean-François Lyotard’）
Rodopi 2001 （ ISBN:9042014067 ）
MISC
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Review of Rajan and O’Driscoll (eds) After Poststructuralism
James Kirwan
Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques 23 ( 3 ) 206 - 208 2003
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Review of Wendy Steiner The Trouble With Beauty
James Kirwan
The British Journal of Aesthetics 42 ( 3 ) 335 - 337 2002
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Review of Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell (eds) Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts
James Kirwan
The British Journal of Aesthetics 41 ( 4 ) 453 - 455 2001
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Review of Michele Marra (ed.) Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader
James Kirwan
The British Journal of Aesthetics 41 ( 3 ) 347 - 349 2001
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Review of Pauline von Bonsdorff and Arto Haapala (eds) Aesthetics in the Human Environment
James Kirwan
Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques 20 ( 1 ) 86 - 88 2000
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Review of Stephen Bronner Camus: Portrait of a Moralist
James Kirwan
Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques 19 ( 6 ) 392 - 393 1999
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Review of Ellen Handler Spitz Museums of the Mind
James Kirwan
The British Journal of Aesthetics 36 ( 2 ) 188 - 189 1996
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Review of Joseph Grixti The Terrors of Uncertainty
James Kirwan
Textual Practice 7 ( 3 ) 542 - 548 1993
Presentations
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‘A New Introduction to Aesthetics: How an Aesthetic Object Comes to Be’ Invited
James Kirwan
Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 2023.5
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‘A New Introduction to Aesthetics’ Invited
James Kirwan
Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture, Keele University, UK 2023.3
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‘The Aesthetic Will Not Save Us’
James Kirwan
International Symposium: ‘Troubling Universalisms: Politics and Aesthetics in Critical Theory’, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 2023
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‘Which Aesthetic? On the Scope and Limits of Aesthetics’
James Kirwan
22nd International Congress of Aesthetics organized by the International Society for Aesthetics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2023
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‘What is Aesthetic Experience?’ Invited
James Kirwan
Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 2022.11
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‘The Aesthetics of Imperfection’
James Kirwan
International Symposium: (Im)Perfectionist Aesthetics, Kansai University, Japan 2020
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‘The Aesthetics of Perfection’
James Kirwan
69th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Aesthetics, Kansai University, Japan 2019
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‘The Aesthetics of Perfection’
James Kirwan
International Symposium: (Im)Perfectionist Aesthetics, University of Tokyo, Japan 2017
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‘The Aesthetic Idea as the Essence of the Aesthetic’
James Kirwan
International Conference: Coordinates of Aesthetics, Art and Culture III, University of Prešov, Slovakia 2017
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‘The Aesthetics of Art and Mass Culture: Does Art Have Any Aesthetic Value?’
James Kirwan
20th International Congress of Aesthetics organized by the International Society for Aesthetics, Seoul National University, Korea 2016
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‘Moral Experience’ Invited
James Kirwan
Royal Institute of Philosophy Invited Lecture Series at the School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and Environment, Keele University, UK 2015.10
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‘Moral Responses and Moral Judgements’ Invited
James Kirwan
Research seminar at the Department of Philosophy, Durham University, UK 2015.10
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‘Immunity and the Infection of Thought’
James Kirwan
International Conference: Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection, KU Leuven, Belgium 2015
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‘Coleridge on Beauty: Aesthetic Contemplation as Revelation’
James Kirwan
International Conference: Coleridge, Contemplation, and the Ordination of Thought, Cambridge University, UK 2015
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‘The Imperialism of Criticism: Reading Dickens’
James Kirwan
International Conference: The Dickens World organized by the Centre for Advanced Study, Department of English, Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University, India 2012
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‘Is there an eighteenth-century exotic?’
James Kirwan
39th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University, UK 2010
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‘Evil in Aesthetics’
James Kirwan
18th International Congress of Aesthetics organized by the International Society for Aesthetics, Peking University, China 2010
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‘Hume and Aesthetic Ethicism’
James Kirwan
38th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University, UK 2009
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‘The Natural Idea of Beauty in Shaftesbury’
James Kirwan
37th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University, UK 2008
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‘Eighteenth Century Aesthetics: A Lost Discipline’
James Kirwan
35th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University, UK 2006
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‘On Being True to the Earth’
James Kirwan
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Australia-New Zealand), Monash University, Australia 2005
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‘The Aesthetic Reaction’ Invited
James Kirwan
Seminar at Department of Philosophy of Ljubljana University, Slovenija 2002.11
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‘Aesthetic Preference and Spiritual Status: Our Interest in Disinterestedness’ Invited
James Kirwan
XXII International Colloquium ‘Hegemony in Art and Culture’, Ljubljana, Slovenija 2002
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‘The Mysterious East’
James Kirwan
15th International Congress of Aesthetics organized by the International Society for Aesthetics, Tokyo, Japan 2001
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‘The Institution of Kitsch’
James Kirwan
Pacific Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Monterey, USA 1999
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‘Taste: Some Reflections on the Back of the Mirror’
James Kirwan
Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Warwick University, UK 1999
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‘“The claim to a nobler motive”: morality, reason, and the sublime in Kant’ Invited
James Kirwan
East-West Seminar organized by the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Bordeaux, France 1998
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‘The Philosophical Problem of Beauty and Art’
James Kirwan
13th International Congress of Aesthetics organized by the International Society for Aesthetics, Lahti, Finland 1995
Research Projects
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Imperfectionist Aesthetics: Philosophy, Art, Culture
Grant number：19K00143 2019.4 - 2024.3
日本学術振興会 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(C)
James Kirwan, 山口 惠里子, 大石 和欣, Cheyne Peter
Grant amount：\4290000 （ Direct Cost: \3300000 、 Indirect Cost：\990000 ）
In 2023 a collection of a selection of the papers from the conference '(Im)Perfectionist Aesthetics' held at Kansai University in 2020, supplemented by newly commissioned papers on the same topic was published by Routledge with the title 'Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life' (ISBN 9781032170091), it was edited by Peter Cheyne. The book contains 27 contributions by different scholars. The book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies. It is intended to appeal to a broad range of scholars and advanced students working in philosophical aesthetics, literature, music, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies. Since the publication of the book the team has been preparing a Japanese translation of the work to be published by the University of Tokyo Press.
Teaching Experience
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Cultural Studies
2004 - Present Institution：Kansai University
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English Language
1995 - 2004 Institution：Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Academic Activities
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The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Oxford University Press)
Role(s)： Peer review
2023
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Role(s)： Peer review
2021
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Studi Kantiani (Fabrizio Serra editore)
Role(s)： Peer review
2021
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International Symposium: ‘(Im)Perfectionist Aesthetics’
Role(s)： Planning, management, etc.
James Kirwan 2020.2
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Espes: Journal of the Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia
Role(s)： Supervision (editorial)
2020
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The British Journal of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press)
Role(s)： Peer review
2019
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Contemporary Aesthetics (Contemporary Aesthetics Inc.)
Role(s)： Peer review
2019
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Columbia University Press
Role(s)： Peer review
2013
Devising educational methods
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特になし
Teaching materials
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特になし
Teaching method presentations
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‘Eighteenth Century Aesthetics: A Lost Discipline’ 35th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University, UK, 2006. ‘Deprofessionalizing’ in Rudolphus Teeuwen and Steffen Hantke（eds）Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labour in Higher Education（Rodopi; Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA; Rodopi, 2007）181-85. ‘The Natural Idea of Beauty in Shaftesbury’ 37th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University, UK, 2008. ‘Hume and Aesthetic Ethicism’ 38th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University, UK, 2009. ‘Is there an eighteenth-century exotic?’ 39th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University, UK, 2010. ‘Evil in Aesthetics’ XVIIIth International Congress of Aesthetics organized by the International Society for Aesthetics, Peking University, China, 2010. ‘Aesthetics Without the Aesthetic?’ in Diogenes（SAGE Publications）, forthcoming.
Special notes on other educational activities
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