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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.
List 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 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 Aesthetics
B. Tragic Beauty
14. Time as Discontinuous Continuity in Whitehead, D¿gen & 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
Endnotes
Bibliography
Glossary
About the author
Steve Odin teaches Japanese and East-West comparative philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he has taught for more than thirty years.
