Ichikawa, Takashi
Faculty of Letters French Literature Professor
Graduate School of Letters French Literature Professor
Research Overview
My main research interests are French literature and thought of the 20th century. With reference to the texts of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and others on Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others, I am examining the process by which existentialism is overcome by structuralism and post-structuralism. In recent years, focusing on Jean-Luc Nancy's theory of community in the 1980s, I have been considering the range of Nancy's reading of Bataille and the differences with Blanchot's theory of community.
Specialty
Modern Literature and Philosophy