Tragic beauty in Whitehead and Japanese aesthetics
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Tragic beauty in Whitehead and Japanese aesthetics
（Contemporary Whitehead studies）
Lexington Books, c2016
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-321) and indexes
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Description
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 yugen 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
About the Cover
I. Primacy of Aesthetics
1. Primacy of Aesthetics in Japanese Culture
2. Whitehead's Aesthetics: Early Works
3. Whitehead's Aesthetics: Process and Reality
4. Whitehead's Aesthetics: Later Works
5. Whitehead's Retrieval of Beauty
6. The Problem of Aestheticism
(i) Whitehead's Aestheticism
(ii) Japanese Aestheticism
II. Beauty as Aesthetic Quality
7. 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 Objects
10. 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 on Yugen in Japanese Aesthetics
B. Tragic Beauty
14. Time as Discontinuous Continuity in Whitehead, Dogen & Nishida
15. Tragic Beauty in Whitehead's Process Aesthetics
16. Aware in Japanese Aesthetics
17. A Whiteheadian Perspective on Aware in Japanese Aesthetics
18. Tragic Beauty and Peace in Whitehead & Japanese Aesthetics
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