New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics

A. Minh Nguyen

doi:10.5771/9780739180822

Summary

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.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-8081-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-8082-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 450
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Illustrations No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Preface No access
5. Introduction No access
1. Chapter 1 A Philosophic Grounding for Japanese Aesthetics No access
2. Chapter 2 Cloud, Mist, Shadow, No access
3. Chapter 3 Authority in Taste No access
4. Chapter 4 Beauty as Ecstasy in the Aesthetics of Nishida and Schopenhauer No access
5. Chapter 5 Bodily Aesthetics and the Cultivation of Moral Virtues No access
1. Chapter 6 Beyond Zeami No access
2. Chapter 7 The Appreciative Paradox of Japanese Gardens No access
3. Chapter 8 Savoring Tastes No access
4. Chapter 9 Art of War, Art of Self No access
1. Chapter 10 Ainu Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art No access
2. Chapter 11 The Idea of Greece in Modern Japan’s Cultural Dreams No access
3. Chapter 12 Yashiro Yukio and the Aesthetics of Japanese Art History No access
4. Chapter 13 Aestheticizing Sacrifice No access
5. Chapter 14 Nagai Kafū and the Aesthetics of Urban Strolling No access
6. Chapter 15 Cool-Kawaii Aesthetics and New World Modernity No access
1. Chapter 16 Bashō and the Art of Eternal Now No access
2. Chapter 17 Knowing Elegance No access
3. Chapter 18 The Measure of Comparison No access
4. Chapter 19 On Kawabata, Kishida, and No access
5. Chapter 20 Japanese Poetry and the Aesthetics of Disaster No access
1. Chapter 21 Inner Beauty No access
2. Chapter 22 The Pan Real Art Association’s Revolt against “the Beauties of Nature” No access
3. Chapter 23 The Aesthetics of Emptiness in Japanese Calligraphy and Abstract Expressionism No access
4. Chapter 24 On Not Disturbing Still Water No access
1. Chapter 25 Finding No access
2. Chapter 26 and Glamour as Aesthetic Properties of Persons No access
3. Chapter 27 Scents and Sensibility No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 413 - 424
Index No access Pages 425 - 440
Contributors No access Pages 441 - 448
About the Editor No access Pages 449 - 450