Tragic beauty in Whitehead and Japanese aesthetics
By: Steve Odin
Series: Contemporary Whitehead studies; Contemporary Whitehead studies
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781498514774; 9781498514781; 9781498514798
Subjects: Ästhetik; Japanese Aesthetics; Tragic, The, in art; Modern Aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-321) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- pt. I; title: Primacy of Aesthetics -- -- 1.; title: Primacy of Aesthetics in Japanese Culture -- -- 2.; title: Whitehead's Aesthetics: Early Works -- -- 3.; title: Whitehead's Aesthetics: Process and Reality -- -- 4.; title: Whitehead's Aesthetics: Later Works -- -- 5.; title: Whitehead's Retrieval of Beauty -- -- 6.; title: The Problem of Aestheticism -- -- pt. II; title: Beauty as Aesthetic Quality -- -- 7.; title: Whitehead's Metaphysics of Aesthetic Quality -- -- 8.; title: Aesthetic Quality in East-West Perspective -- -- 9.; title: Whitehead's Doctrine of Aesthetic Qualities as Eternal Objects -- -- 10.; title: Beauty as Synaesthesia in Whitehead, Hartshorne, and Japanese Aesthetics -- -- pt. III; title: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yugen and Aware in Japanese Aesthetics -- -- 11.; title: The "Penumbral Beauty" of Darkness and Shadows in Whitehead's Process Aesthetics -- -- 12.; title: Yugen as the Beauty of Darkness in Japanese Aesthetics -- -- 13.; title: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yugen in Japanese Aesthetics -- -- 14.; title: Time as Discontinuous Continuity in Whitehead, Dogen, and Nishida -- -- pt. IV; title: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yugen and Aware in Japanese Aesthetics -- -- 15.; title: Tragic Beauty in Whitehead's Process Aesthetics -- -- 16.; title: Aware in Japanese Aesthetics -- -- 17.; title: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Aware in Japanese Aesthetics -- -- 18.; title: Tragic Beauty and Peace in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics.