Comparative Everyday Aesthetics

East-West Studies in Contemporary Living
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-94-6372-336-7
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Leading international scholars present analysis and case studies from different cultural settings, East and West, exploring aesthetic interest and experience in our daily lives at home, in workplaces, using everyday things, in our built and natural environments, and in our relationships and communities. A wide range of views and examples of everyday aesthetics are presented from western philosophical paradigms, from Confucian and Daoist aesthetics, and from the Japanese tradition. All indicate universal features of human aesthetic lives together with their cultural variations. Comparative Everyday Aesthetics is a significant contribution to a key trend in international aesthetics for thinking beyond narrow art-centered conceptions of the aesthetic. It generates global discussions about good, aesthetic, everyday living in all its various aspects. It also promotes aesthetic education for personal, social, and environmental development and presents opportunities for global collaborative projects in philosophical aesthetics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Man, Eva Kit Wah

Petts, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Living with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical Practice —Yuriko Saito

Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: An Introduction —Jeffrey Petts and Eva K W Man

Part 1: Living Aesthetically

Dao Aesthetics: Ways of Opening to Sublime Experiences and Transforming Beautifully —Robin R Wang

Everyday Aesthetics of Taking a Walk: With Zhuangzi —Thomas Leddy

Divergence and Rejoining: Reflecting on Chinese-Western Comparative Everyday Aesthetics —Ouyang Xiao

Part 2: Nature and Environment

The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment: From the Perspective of Comparison between China and the West —Gao Jianping

Cryosphere Aesthetics —Emily Brady

Section 3: Eating and Drinking

Memory’s Kitchen: In Search of a Taste —Carolyn Korsmeyer

Chopsticks and the Haptic Aesthetics of Eating —Richard Shusterman

Taking Tea, but Differently: The Chinese Tea Tradition and its European Transformations —Yanping Gao

Part 4: Creative Life

Dô (Dao) in the Practice of Art: Everyday Aesthetic Life in Japan Through the Japanese Tea Ceremony —Tanehisa Otabe

Skill Stories from the Zhuangzi and Arts and Crafts: Aesthetic Fit, Harmony, and Transformation: Toward a Developmental, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics —Jeffrey Petts

Part 5: Technology and Images

Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of Gadgets —Janet McCracken

Filming the Everyday: Between Aesthetics and Politics —Peng Feng

Images and Reality —John Carvalho

Part 6: Relationships and Communities

Aesthetics in Friendship and Intimacy —Katherine Higgins

Morality and Aesthetical Lives: Real Stories of Two Hong Kong Women —Eva Kit Wah Man

AUTHORS’ BIO

Über Autor(innen)

Man, Eva Kit Wah
Eva Kit Wah Man is Kiriyama Professor of The Center for Asia and Pacific Studies at University of San Francisco. She is also an Emeritus Professor of Hong Kong Baptist University. She publishes widely in comparative aesthetics, comparative philosophy, woman studies, feminist philosophy, cultural studies, art and cultural criticism. She was named AMUW Endowed Woman Chair Professor of the 100th Anniversary of Marquette University in the US. She was awarded Outstanding Award in Public Services by Home Affairs Bureau of HKSAR.

Petts, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Petts is an independent scholar. He has published work in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Historical Materialism, and the British Journal of Aesthetics. He also has papers translated and published in Chinese journals, China Book Review, and Tianjin Social Science. His book Aesthetics and Design: Value in Everyday Life is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic.