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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.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
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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
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Steve Odin
