Tragic beauty in Whitehead and Japanese aesthetics / / Steve Odin

• Autore: Odin Steve <1953->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 111/.85092
• Soggetto topico: Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century; Aesthetics, Japanese; Tragic, The, in art
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Perspective
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tragic beauty in Whitehead and Japanese aesthetics
• ISBN: 1-4985-1478-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823427603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Whitehead studies.