Mario Sabattini (1944-2017), Emeritus Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University at Venice, focused mainly on Zhu Guangqian's aesthetic thought, and poetic in general. He has published extensively in Italian, English and Chinese. He has been a pioneer in the teaching of Thai language in Italy. From 1999 to 2003, Sabattini served as Cultural Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in the People’s Republic of China.      Elisa Levi Sabattini, Ph.D. (2006), Ca’ Foscari University at Venice and INALCO at Paris, is Associate Professor of Chinese Philology at L’Orientale University of Naples and affiliated Research Fellow at the Frieberg Center for Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of Early China, with special attention to Western Han political rhetoric within the construction of the monarchic system, ethical standards, early economic thought.

• PrefaceThematic Bibliography of Mario SabattiniContentsIntroduction: Zhu Guangqian and CroceZhu Guangqian: The Psychology of Art and LiteratureForeword1 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: the Intuition of Form2 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: “Psychical Distance”3 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: the Ego-Object Identity (Empathy)4 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: Aesthetic Sense and Physiology (the Theory of “Inner Imitation”)5 Some Erroneous Interpretations of Aesthetic Experience6 Aesthetic Sense and Association of Ideas7 Art and Morality: a Historical Review8 Art and Morality: towards a Theory9 The Beautiful and the Ugly in Nature: the Errors in Idealism and in Naturalism10 What Do We Call “Beautiful”11 A Criticism of the Crocian Aesthetic: The Problems of Communication and Value12 Play and the Origin of Art13 Artistic Creation: Imagination and Inspiration14 Artistic Creation: Genius and Human EffortBibliographyIndex

Mario Sabattini (1944-2017), Emeritus Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University at Venice, focused mainly on Zhu Guangqian's aesthetic thought, and poetic in general. He has published extensively in Italian, English and Chinese. He has been a pioneer in the teaching of Thai language in Italy. From 1999 to 2003, Sabattini served as Cultural Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in the People’s Republic of China.      Elisa Levi Sabattini, Ph.D. (2006), Ca’ Foscari University at Venice and INALCO at Paris, is Associate Professor of Chinese Philology at L’Orientale University of Naples and affiliated Research Fellow at the Frieberg Center for Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of Early China, with special attention to Western Han political rhetoric within the construction of the monarchic system, ethical standards, early economic thought.

• PrefaceThematic Bibliography of Mario SabattiniContentsIntroduction: Zhu Guangqian and CroceZhu Guangqian: The Psychology of Art and LiteratureForeword1 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: the Intuition of Form2 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: “Psychical Distance”3 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: the Ego-Object Identity (Empathy)4 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: Aesthetic Sense and Physiology (the Theory of “Inner Imitation”)5 Some Erroneous Interpretations of Aesthetic Experience6 Aesthetic Sense and Association of Ideas7 Art and Morality: a Historical Review8 Art and Morality: towards a Theory9 The Beautiful and the Ugly in Nature: the Errors in Idealism and in Naturalism10 What Do We Call “Beautiful”11 A Criticism of the Crocian Aesthetic: The Problems of Communication and Value12 Play and the Origin of Art13 Artistic Creation: Imagination and Inspiration14 Artistic Creation: Genius and Human EffortBibliographyIndex

Mario Sabattini (1944-2017), Emeritus Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University at Venice, focused mainly on Zhu Guangqian's aesthetic thought, and poetic in general. He has published extensively in Italian, English and Chinese. He has been a pioneer in the teaching of Thai language in Italy. From 1999 to 2003, Sabattini served as Cultural Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in the People’s Republic of China.      Elisa Levi Sabattini, Ph.D. (2006), Ca’ Foscari University at Venice and INALCO at Paris, is Associate Professor of Chinese Philology at L’Orientale University of Naples and affiliated Research Fellow at the Frieberg Center for Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of Early China, with special attention to Western Han political rhetoric within the construction of the monarchic system, ethical standards, early economic thought.

• PrefaceThematic Bibliography of Mario SabattiniContentsIntroduction: Zhu Guangqian and CroceZhu Guangqian: The Psychology of Art and LiteratureForeword1 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: the Intuition of Form2 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: “Psychical Distance”3 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: the Ego-Object Identity (Empathy)4 Analysis of Aesthetic Experience: Aesthetic Sense and Physiology (the Theory of “Inner Imitation”)5 Some Erroneous Interpretations of Aesthetic Experience6 Aesthetic Sense and Association of Ideas7 Art and Morality: a Historical Review8 Art and Morality: towards a Theory9 The Beautiful and the Ugly in Nature: the Errors in Idealism and in Naturalism10 What Do We Call “Beautiful”11 A Criticism of the Crocian Aesthetic: The Problems of Communication and Value12 Play and the Origin of Art13 Artistic Creation: Imagination and Inspiration14 Artistic Creation: Genius and Human EffortBibliographyIndex