New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics (eBook)

A. Minh Nguyen (Herausgeber)

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2017
1 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
978-1-9787-5764-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.12.2017
• Co-Autor: Stephen Addiss, Carol Steinberg Gould, Mikiko Hirayama, Matthew Larking, Peter Leech, John C. Maraldo, James McRae, Mara Miller, Hiroshi Nara, A. Minh Nguyen, Steve Odin, David Bell, Graham Parkes, C. Michael Rich, J. Thomas Rimer, Yuriko Saito, Roy Starrs, Akiko Takenaka, Meera Viswanathan, Jason M. Wirth, Koji Yamasaki, Michiko Yusa, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Richard Bullen, Allen Carlson, Robert E. Carter, David E. Cooper, Cheryl Crowley, Timothy Unverzagt Goddard
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• ISBN-10: 1-9787-5764-6 / 1978757646
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9787-5764-6 / 9781978757646