ABSTRACT Iki is the key word of Shūzō Kuki’s The Structure of Iki, and it became one of the most widely recognized Japanese aesthetic categories mainly due to this work. However, in The Problems of Contingency, which is Kuki’s most important philosophical work, there is no discussion of iki again, and consequently, most commentators of Kuki fail to see the correlation between his theories of iki and contingency. This article, by contrast, intends to provide a new interpretation of iki in the light of Kuki’s theory of contingency. The specific thesis of this paper is that aesthetic phenomena categorized as subject to the principles of iki are positively evaluated in Japanese culture just because the consciousness of iki is just one form of the consciousness of contingency, in which the awareness of alternatives to the actual situation could produce considerable spiritual entertainment for aesthetic subjects.

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壹岐与偶然性：构筑崇祖早期美学理论

摘要壹岐是首相久喜（SūzōKuki）的《壹岐的结构》（The Structure of Iki）的关键词，主要由于这项工作，它成为日本最广泛认可的美学类别之一。但是，在久气最重要的哲学著作《偶然性问题》中，没有再讨论过“气”，因此，大多数久气的评论者都看不到他的气与理论之间的关联。相比之下，本文旨在根据Kuki的权变理论提供对iki的新解释。本文的具体论点是，归因于iki原理的审美现象在日本文化中得到了积极的评价，因为iki的意识只是偶然性意识的一种形式，