Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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The present volume endeavors to make a contribution to contemporary Whitehead studies by clarifying his axiological process metaphysics, including his theory of values, concept of aesthetic experience, and doctrine of beauty, along with his philosophy of art, literature and poetry. Moreover, it establishes an east-west dialogue focusing on how Alfred North Whitehead’s process aesthetics can be clarified by the traditional Japanese Buddhist sense of evanescent beauty. As this east-west dialogue unfolds it is shown that there are many striking points of convergence between Whitehead’s process aesthetics and the traditional Japanese sense of beauty. However, the work especially focuses on two of Whitehead’s aesthetic categories, including the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while further demonstrating parallels with the two Japanese aesthetic categories of yûgen and aware. It is clarified how both Whitehead and the Japanese tradition have articulated a poetics of evanescence that celebrates the transience of aesthetic experience and the ephemerality of beauty. Finally it is argued that both Whitehead and Japanese tradition develop an aesthetics of beauty as perishability culminating in a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace or nirvana.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-09-15
Mått152 x 220 x 27 mm
Vikt531 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary Whitehead Studies
Antal sidor352
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498514798

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction AbbreviationsAbout the CoverI. Primacy of Aesthetics1. Primacy of Aesthetics in Japanese Culture2. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Early Works3. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Process and Reality4. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Later Works5. Whitehead’s Retrieval of Beauty6. The Problem of Aestheticism (i) Whitehead’s Aestheticism(ii) Japanese AestheticismII. Beauty as Aesthetic Quality7. Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Aesthetic Quality 8. Aesthetic Quality in East-West Perspective (i) S. C. Pepper, (ii) F.S.C Northrop, (iii) R. M. Pirsig, (iv) H. N. Wieman, (v) S. K. Langer 9. Whitehead’s Doctrine of Aesthetic Qualities as Eternal Objects10. Beauty as Synaesthesia in Whitehead, Hartshorne & Japanese Aesthetics III. A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yugen & Aware in Japanese Aesthetics A. Penumbral Beauty 11. Penumbral Beauty of Darkness in Whitehead’s Process Aesthetics 12. Yugen as the Beauty of Darkness in Japanese Aesthetics 13. A Whiteheadian Perspective