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Informationen zum Autor Steve Odin teaches Japanese and East-West comparative philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he has taught for more than thirty years. Klappentext This book examines Whitehead's process aesthetics focusing the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace. Zusammenfassung This book examines Whitehead's process aesthetics focusing the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability! while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction AbbreviationsAbout the CoverI. Primacy of Aesthetics 1. Primacy of Aesthetics in Japanese Culture2. Whitehead's Aesthetics: Early Works3. Whitehead's Aesthetics: Process and Reality4. Whitehead's Aesthetics: Later Works5. Whitehead's Retrieval of Beauty6. The Problem of Aestheticism (i) Whitehead's Aestheticism (ii) Japanese AestheticismII. Beauty as Aesthetic Quality7. 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 Objects10. Beauty as Synaesthesia in Whitehead, Hartshorne & Japanese Aesthetics III. A Whiteheadian Perspective on Y¿gen & Aware in Japanese Aesthetics A. Penumbral Beauty 11. Penumbral Beauty of Darkness in Whitehead's Process Aesthetics 12. Y¿gen as the Beauty of Darkness in Japanese Aesthetics 13. A Whiteheadian Perspective on Y¿gen in Japanese AestheticsB. Tragic Beauty14. Time as Discontinuous Continuity in Whitehead, D¿gen & Nishida15. 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 Endnotes BibliographyGlossary...
