The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

Marcello Ghilardi, Professor Hans-Georg Moeller (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25383-4 (ISBN)

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For anyone working in aesthetics interested in understanding the richness of the Chinese aesthetic tradition this handbook is the place to start. Comprised of general introductory overviews, critical reflections and contextual analysis, it covers everything from the origins of aesthetics in China to the role of aesthetics in philosophy today.

Beginning in early China (1st millennium BCE), it traces the Chinese aesthetic tradition, exploring the import of the term aesthetics into Chinese thought via Japan around the end of the 19th century. It looks back to early practices of art and craftsmanship, showing how the history of Chinese thought provides a multitude of artefacts and texts that give rise to a wide range of aesthetic creations and notions. Introducing various perspectives on traditional arts in China, including painting, ceramics, calligraphy, poetry, music and theatre, it explores those aesthetic traditions not included in “canonic” art forms, such as martial arts, rock gardening, and ritual performance.

Written by Chinese, European, and American theoreticians and practitioners, this authoritative research resource enhances contemporary aesthetics by revealing the possibilities of a Chinese philosophy of art.

Marcello Ghilardi is Associate Professor of Aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova, Italy. Hans-Georg Moeller is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau in Macau SAR, China.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Marcello Ghilardi and Hans-Georg Moeller
Part I. Aesthetic Theories
1. A Sketch of Chinese Aesthetics, Wang Kepin
2. Beauty Lies in the Image. Endowing Fundamental Theories of Aesthetics with Chinese Characteristics, Ye Lang
3. A Cosmological Aestheticism: The Interpretive Context for Confucian Role Ethics. Reading the Cosmology of the Book of Changes as an Aestheticism, Roger Ames
4. 'Living and Dead Rules'. The Role of Rules in Chinese Aesthetics, Karl-Heinz Pohl
Part II. Aesthetic Concepts
5. Defining Mindscape (yijing): Extension, Intension and Beyond, Peng Feng
6. On the Notion of Xiang (“Image-Phenomenon”) in Landscape Ink Painting, Marcello Ghilardi
7. Nature as Not-yet-existing Beauty, Xia Kejun
8. Some Aesthetic and Artistic Categories in Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Yolaine Escande
9. What is “The Aestheticization of Everyday Life”?, Zhou Xian
Part III: Aesthetic Practices and Exercises
10. The Aesthetics of Music in the Ethical Discussion in Early China, Elisa Levi Sabattini
11. The Mechanics of Change. The Aesthetics of Chinese Ceramics in the Northern Song (960-1127) and Early Jin (1127-1234) Dynasties, Sabrina Rastelli
12. New Theatre and New Drama: Chinese Aesthetic Modernity through the Drama Activities in the Early 20th Century, Li Kelin
13. The Aesthetics of the Grotesque in Modern Chinese Narrative, Nicoletta Pesaro
14. The Role of Stone in the Chinese Rock Garden, Graham Parkes
15. Aesthetics in Asian Martial Arts, Barry Allen
Glossary
List of Contributors
Annotated Essential Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-350-25383-9 / 1350253839
ISBN-13	978-1-350-25383-4 / 9781350253834
Zustand	Neuware