Global Theories of the Arts and Aesthetics

Susan L. Feagin is Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and the editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. She is the author of Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation (Cornell, 1996) and co-editor, with Patrick Maynard, of Aesthetics (Oxford, 1997). She writes generally on philosophy of the visual arts, emotions and art, and philosophy of literature.

• I Introduction, Susan L. Feagin . II The Sounding of theWorld: Aesthetic Reflections on Traditional Gong Music of Vietnam, Philip Alperson, Nguye n ChıBe´n, and to Ngoc Thanh.III Balinese Aesthetics, Stephen Davies.IV Aesthetic and Spiritual Correlations in Javanese Gamelan Music, Susan PrattWalton.V An Alchemy of Emotion: Rasa and Aesthetic Breakthroughs Kathleen Marie Higgins.VI Asian Ars Erotica and the Question of Sexual Aesthetics, Richard Shusterman.VII Islamic Aesthetics: An AlternativeWay to Knowledge, Jale Nejdet Erzen.VIII Shikinen Sengu and the Ontology of Architecture in Japan, Dominic Mciver Lopes.IX The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics, Yuriko Saito.X The Ethics of Confucian Artistry, Eric C. Mullis.XI Subversive Strategies in Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Mary BittnerWiseman.XII Embodied Meanings, Isotypes, and Aesthetical Ideas, Arthur C. Danto.XIII Art and Globalization: Then and Now, Noel Carroll

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