New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics

Buch | Hardcover

526 Seiten

2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8081-5 (ISBN)

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This collection begins with an engaging historical overview of Japanese aesthetics and offers contemporary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics.

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large variety of disciplinary perspectives—including philosophy, literature, and cultural politics—to shed light on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics. Contributors explore topics from the philosophical groundings for Japanese aesthetics and the Japanese aesthetics of imperfection and insufficiency to the Japanese love of and respect for nature and the paradoxical ability of Japanese art and culture to absorb enormous amounts of foreign influence and yet maintain its own unique identity. New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics will appeal not only to a wide range of humanities scholars but also to graduate and undergraduate students of Japanese aesthetics, art, philosophy, literature, culture, and civilization. Masterfully articulating the contributors’ Japanese-aesthetical concerns and their application to Japanese arts (including literature, theater, film, drawing, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, crafts, music, fashion, comics, cooking, packaging, gardening, landscape architecture, flower arrangement, the martial arts, and the tea ceremony), these engaging and penetrating essays will also appealto nonacademic professionals and general audiences. This seminal work will be essential reading for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Japanese aesthetics.

A. Minh Nguyen is professor of philosophy, assistant dean of the Honors College, and faculty affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Foreword
Stephen Addiss
Preface
A. Minh Nguyen
Introduction: Historical Overview of Japanese Aesthetics
Yuriko Saito
Introduction: New Contributions to Japanese Aesthetics
A. Minh Nguyen

I: Japanese Aesthetics and Philosophy
1 A Philosophic Grounding for Japanese Aesthetics
Robert E. Carter
2 Cloud, Mist, Shadow, Shakuhachi: The Aesthetics of the Indistinct
David E. Cooper
3 Authority in Taste
Richard Bullen
4 Beauty as Ecstasy in the Aesthetics of Nishida and Schopenhauer
Steve Odin
5 Bodily Aesthetics and the Cultivation of Moral Virtues
Yuriko Saito

II: Japanese Aesthetics and Culture
6 Beyond Zeami: Innovating Mise en Sc?ne in Contemporary No Theatre Performance
C. Michael Rich
7 The Appreciative Paradox of Japanese Gardens
Allen Carlson
8 Savoring Tastes: Appreciating Food in Japan
Graham Parkes
9 Art of War, Art of Self: Aesthetic Cultivation in Japanese Martial Arts
James McRae

III: Japanese Aesthetics and Cultural Politics
10 Ainu Aesthetics and Philosophy

Erscheinungsdatum	27.12.2017
Co-Autor	Stephen Addiss, Professor A. Minh Nguyen, Yuriko Saito, Robert E. Carter
Zusatzinfo	23 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 238 mm
Gewicht	871 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-7391-8081-9 / 0739180819
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-8081-5 / 9780739180815
Zustand	Neuware