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MATSUO, Hiroshi  Professor - Aesthetics, Department of Aesthetics and Art History 20 June, 2010
 
1949Born in Mie Prefecture
1972B.A. in Group 1, at Tokyo University
1975M.A. in Aesthetics and Art Theory at Tokyo University
1978left the doctor course of Aesthetics of Tokyo University
1978-86Instructor, Seijo University
1986-92Associate Professor, Seijo University
1992-97Associate Professor, Tohoku University
1997-99Professor, Tohoku University
1999-Professor, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Tokyo University of the Arts
Reseach Activities
articles (in Japanese)
"Forma eloquentiae and genera dicendi: Ciceronian Ideal of Style in Orator," Journal of Classical Studies 25 (1977.3), 91-101.
"Ciceronian Concept of locus commnunis," Bigakushi Kenkyuu Sousho. Vol. 5. Ed. by Tomonobu Imamichi (1979), 75-105.
"The Problem of το θαυμαστον in the Experience of Tragedy: Aristoteles. Poetica 1452a1-6," Bigaku Bijutushi Ronshuu (Seijo University) 1 (1980), 59-110.
"Rhetorical Language and Non-Rhetorical Language: Seen from the perspective of Cicero," Shisou 682 (1981), 140-157.
"The Concept of Image-Making in Cicero's Rhetoric," Art and Imagination. Ed. by Tomonobu Imamichi (1982), 157-173.
"The Technique of amplificatio: An Aspect of the Medieval Rhetoric," Eigo Seinen 128/1 (1983), 16-17.
"μίμησις & ήθος in Aristotelian Poetics," Kenkyu (the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University) 1 (1983), 10-31.
"Orator and Pathos: An Aspect of the decorum-concept by Cicero," Bigakushi Ronso (1983), 80-93.
"Cicero," Kyouiku-Shisoushi. Vol.1. Ed. by the Institute of Mediecal Thought of Jouchi University. (1984), 291-314.
"Rhetoric in the Mediecal Age: The Technique of amplificatio," Koza Bigaku. Ed. by Tomonobu Imamichi. Vol.1. (1984), 313-327.
"Baumgarten Aesthetica: A Commentary (1)," Bigaku Bijutushi Ronshuu (Seijo University) 4 (1984), 1-70.
"The concept of extensive clarity by Baumgarten," The Scope of the pre-Kantian and Non-Kantian Aesthetics (1985), 58-67.
"Baumgarten Aesthetica: A Commentary (2)," Bigaku Bijutushi Ronshuu (Seijo University) 5 (1985), 1-116.
"Aristotle," The Essense of Western Aesthetics. Ed. by Tomonobu Imamichi. (1987), 32-47.
"What the metaphor of Flight in the last chapter of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics ?" Seijo Bungei 119 (1987), 632-616.
"The Non-Logical in Poiesis," The Identity and Difference of Poiesis. (1988), 64-74.
"The Origin of the Concept of Sense as Aesthetic Judgement: Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 1143a35-b5, 1142a25-35," Bigaku 154 (1988), 13-23.
"Baumgarten Aesthetica: A Commentary (3)," Bigaku Bijutushi Ronshuu (Seijo University) 7 (1988), 25-63.
"The Consequence of the Aesthetics of Perfection: Baumgarten and Kant," Koza Doitu Kannenron I (1990), 317-341.
"The Concept of analogon rationis in Baumgarten's Aesthetica," Seijo Bungei 131 (1990), 16-30.
"Representation and Formation: Baumgarten, Meditationes §73," Aesthetics 162 (1990), 1-11.
"The Concept of Aesthetic Magnitude by Baumgarten," The Meaning and Logic of Aesthetic Experience or Description and Reduction. (1991), 70-80.
"Theoretical Strategy in Fish's Is There a Text in This Class ?," Annual Report of the Faculty of Letters of Tohoku University. 42 (1993), 1-22.
"The Distinction of the Meanings of Form: An Ingardenian Approach," Art Theoretical Study of Form. (1995), 1-6.
"The Negative Function of Taste," Sense, Body, Community in Aesthetics. (1996), 13-33.
"The Theory of Musical Value in Edmond Gurney," Ongakuno Uchuu: Essays in celebration of theseventieth birthday of Prof. Minagawa (1998), 454-459.
"Aesthetics," Wittgenstein's View (1999), 198-199.
"Kant's Criticism on Baumgarten," Aesthetics 200 (2000), 1-12.
"Rhetoric as the Rudiments of Kant's Concept of Aesthetic Ideas," Bulletin of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts 38 (2002), 5-23.
"Factors determining the translation of figures of speech," Bulletin of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts 39 (2003). 5-23.
"Aesthetic Thought of Takayama Chogyu," Report of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Ministry of Education (2004), 136-145.
"The Ground of the Normativeness of "Public Opinion"," Report of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Ministry of Education (2005), 1-15.
"The Stemma of Texts and the Stemma of Illustrations of the Aratea," Study of the Illustrations of Constellation (Report of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Ministry of Education) (2006), 195-204.
"Rhetorical Figures Involved with Visual Signs," Bulletin of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts 44 (2006), 5-27.
"Rhetoric as the Theory of Diction: An Aesthetic Approach," Beginning Rhetoric. Ed. by Sugeno Tateki. (2007), 25-51.
articles (in English)
"Arche (starting-point) of Ethics in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics," Acta Institutionis Philosophiae et Aestheticae. Edited by T. Imamichi, 2 (1984.10), 35-43.
"Aristotle on Dialectic," Acta Institutionis Philosophiae et Aestheticae. Edited by T. Imamichi, 3 (1985.10), 47-53.
articles (in German)
"Baumgartens Begriff der "extensiven Klarheit" und die Rezeption desselben durch Kant," Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo. Aesthetics, 10(1986.3), 51-66.
"Die Bedeutung der Analogie Physis-Techne für die Gegenwart," Acta Institutionis Philosophiae et Aestheticae. Edited by T. Imamichi, 5 (1987.10), 177-189.
"Der Begriff der ästhetischen Kategorie bei Baumgarten," Aesthetics. Edited and published by The Japanese Society for Aesthetics, 5 (1992.3), 15-25.
"Kants Kritik an Baumgartens Ästhetik," Aesthetics. Edited and published by The Japanese Society for Aesthetics 10 (2002.3), 1-14.
Translation
Baumgarten, Aesthetica. (in Japanese) 1987.
Educational Activities
Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (Tokyo University of the Arts)
Lectures and Seminars on aesthetics
Part Time Lecturers at other Universities
Housei University (1978-84)
Japan Women University (1980-81)
Keio University (1984; 1989-91; 2004-06; 2009-10)
Tokyo Metropolitan University (1986-91)
Tohoku University (1988; 1991; 2003)
Tokyo Women University (1989-90; 2006)
Osaka University (1992)
Tokyo University (1994; 2001; 2005)
Social Activities
1998 - up to the present: committee member of the Japanese Society for Aesthetics
1999 - up to the present: representative of the Association of Aesthetics and Art Theory
2001: reviewer of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (section of aesthetics)
2002: referee of the program of Grant-in-aid for the Center of Excellence (COE) by Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture
2002-04: chief of the editorial board of BIGAKU (Aesthetics)
2003: reviewer of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (section of aesthetics and art history)
2003 - up to the present: committee member of the National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation
2005: reviewer of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (section of aesthetics, art history and art of representation)
2006: reviewer of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (section of aesthetics, art history)
2007-09: Reviewer of the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Researchers and of the International Relations Committee (section of humane studies)
Key Words
rhetoric / prolepsis / metadiscouse / reader theory / aesthetic topics / rhetoric of images / figure of speech

Web Site
http://www.geidai.ac.jp/~matsuo/