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Title
Beauty and human existence in Chinese philosophy / Keping Wang.
ISBN
9789811617140 (electronic bk.)
9811617147 (electronic bk.)
9811617139
9789811617133
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan : Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-16-1714-0 doi
Call Number
B126 .W36 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
181.11
Summary
This book considers the Chinese conception of beauty from a historical perspective with regard to its significant relation to human personality and human existence. It examines the etymological implications of the pictographic character mei, the totemic symbolism of beauty, the ferocious beauty of the bronzeware. Further on, it proceeds to look into the conceptual progression of beauty in such main schools of thought as Confucianism, Daoism and Chan Buddhism. Then, it goes on to illustrate through art and literature the leading principles of equilibriumharmony, spontaneous naturalness, subtle void and synthetic possibilities. It also offers a discussion of modern change and transcultural creation conducted with particular reference to the theory of the poetic state par excellence (yi jing shuo) and that of art as sedimentation (ji dian shuo). Keping Wang is a Senior Fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and Emeritus Professor of CASS University. His recent publications are Harmonism as an Alternative (2019), Chinese Culture of Intelligence (2019), and Rediscovery of Sino-Hellenic Ideas (2016).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 11, 2021).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789811617133
The Pictographic Character and Totemism
The Pottery and Bronze art
Ethos of the Rites-Music Tradition
Confucian Ideal and Equilibrium Harmony
Critique of Mohist Utilitarianism
Daoist Pursuit and Spontaneous Naturalness
Beyond Poetic Sentimentalism
Chan Buddhism and Subtle Void
The Water Allegory and Waterscape
The Art of Painting Landscape
The Rise of Modern Chinese Aesthetics
How-to-live Concern and Fourfold Engagement.
