02733nam 2200565 450 991079849990332120180613003016.01-4985-1478-2(CKB)3710000000657850(EBL)4523147(SSID)ssj0001669329(PQKBManifestationID)16461327(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001669329(PQKBWorkID)14935531(PQKB)10560262(MiAaPQ)EBC4523147(EXLCZ)99371000000065785020160526h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTragic beauty in Whitehead and Japanese aesthetics /Steve OdinLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2016.©20161 online resource (357 p.)Contemporary Whitehead StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4985-1479-0 1-4985-1477-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; About the Cover; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Primacy of Aesthetics; Chapter One: Primacy of Aesthetics in Japanese Culture; Chapter Two: Whitehead's Aesthetics: Early Works; Chapter Three: Whitehead's Aesthetics: Process and Reality; Chapter Four: Whitehead's Aesthetics: Later Works; Chapter Five: Whitehead's Retrieval of Beauty; Chapter Six: The Problem of Aestheticism; Part II: Beauty as Aesthetic Quality; Chapter Seven: Whitehead's Metaphysics of Aesthetic Quality; Chapter Eight: Aesthetic Quality in East-West PerspectiveThis book examines Alfred North Whitehead's process aesthetics focusing especially on two categories, including the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while further establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty as yûgen and aware. It clarifies how 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.Contemporary Whitehead studies.Aesthetics, Modern20th centuryAesthetics, JapaneseTragic, The, in artAesthetics, ModernAesthetics, Japanese.Tragic, The, in art.111/.85092Odin Steve1953-690277MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798499903321Tragic beauty in Whitehead and Japanese aesthetics3756967UNINA