ABSTRACT
The second chapter begins with Hanada Kiyoteru’s challenge against literary critic Sasaki Kiichi’s reading of postwar Japanese literature and visual art in terms of space. Hanada’s main point of critique is Sasaki’s rather reductive logic of space—and consequently of time. Arguing that every conscious representation presents another space, Hanada insists on the fundamentally fragmented and multiple image of reality. But rather than ground this multiplicity in the subjective experience, he identifies the quantitative transformation that occurs in the division between phenomenon and matter to oppose the continuity promoted in empirical and organic humanism.
