Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West write by Steve Odin. This book was released on 2001-04-01. Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West takes up the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. The work begins with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West from the eighteenth-century empiricists to contemporary aesthetics and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance. Throughout, the author takes a highly innovative approach by juxtaposing Western aesthetic theory against Eastern (primarily Japanese) aesthetic theory. Weaving between cultures and time periods, the author focuses on a remarkably wide range of theories: in the West, the Kantian notion of disinterested contemplation, Heidegger's Gelassenheit, semiotics, and pragmatism; in Japan, Zeami's notion of riken no ken, the Kyoto School's intepretation of nothingness, D. T. Suzuki's analysis of the function of no-mind, and the writings of Kuki Shuzo on Buddhist detachment. "Portrait of the artist" fiction by such writers as Henry James, James Joyce, Mori Ogai, and Natsume Soseki demonstrates how the main theme of detachment is expressed in literary traditions. The role of sympathy or pragmatism in relation to disinterest is examined, suggesting conflicts within or challenges to the notion of detachment. Researchers and students in Eastern and Western areas of study, including philosophers and religionists, as well as literary and cultural critics, will deem this work an invaluable contribution to cross-cultural philosophy and literary studies.
Aesthetic Experience
Aesthetic Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetic Experience write by Richard Shusterman. This book was released on 2010-09-28. Aesthetic Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and affirm the place of aesthetic experience--in its evaluative, phenomenological and transformational sense--not only in relation to art and artists but to our inner and spiritual lives.
The Structure of Detachment
The Structure of Detachment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Structure of Detachment write by Hiroshi Nara. This book was released on 2004-01-01. The Structure of Detachment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The philosopher's controversial link with Heidegger is explored by Jon Mark Mikkelsen in the final essay, which concludes that, although Heidegger's view of art is consistent, both historically and conceptually, with his political involvement with fascism, the same cannot be said of Kuki."
Essays on Japan
Essays on Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on Japan write by Michael Marra. This book was released on 2010-10-15. Essays on Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra’s essays written in the past ten years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects.
Transformative Arts
Transformative Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformative Arts write by Gary A. Berg. This book was released on 2024-03-02. Transformative Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traditional fine arts are often regarded as rarefied, something accessed by the uniquely talented and displayed in impressive museums or on lavish stages. Art thusly conceived is something that most people never practice in their lives. Yet in day-to-day life we all experience creative satisfaction through interaction with the physical and social environment that is a form of artistic practice. In Transformative Arts: Biological, Digital, and Everyday Aesthetics, Gary A. Berg explores what we gain through understanding ways to live imaginative lives and considers the increasingly important collaborative role of computers and interaction with nature.
