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Informationen zum Autor Steve Odin 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 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 Yugen & Aware in Japanese Aesthetics A. Penumbral Beauty 11. Penumbral Beauty of Darkness in Whitehead's Process Aesthetics 12. Yugen as the Beauty of Darkness in Japanese Aesthetics 13. A Whiteheadian Perspective
