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Comparative Everyday Aesthetics : East-West Studies in Contemporary Living / ed. by Jeffrey Petts, Eva Kit Wah Man.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048554508
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111/.85 23/eng/20230213
LOC classification:
  • BH21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Living with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical Practice -- Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: An Introduction -- Part 1 Living Aesthetically -- 1 Dao Aesthetics: Ways of Opening to Sublime Experiences and Transforming Beautifully -- 2 Everyday Aesthetics of Taking a Walk: With Zhuangzi -- 3 Investigation of Things: Reflecting on Chinese-Western Comparative Everyday Aesthetics -- Part 2 Nature and Environment -- 4 The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment: From the Perspective of Comparison between China and the West -- 5 Cryosphere Aesthetics -- Part 3 Eating and Drinking -- 6 Memory’s Kitchen: In Search of a Taste -- 7 Chopsticks and the Haptic Aesthetics of Eating -- 8 Taking Tea, but Differently: The Chinese Tea Tradition and its European Transformations -- Part 4 Creative Life -- 9 Dô (Dao) in the Practice of Art: Everyday Aesthetic Life in Japan Through the Japanese Tea Ceremony -- 10 Skill Stories from the Zhuangzi and Arts and Crafts: Aesthetic Fit, Harmony, and Transformation: Toward a Developmental, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics -- Part 5 Technology and Images -- 11 Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of Gadgets -- 12 Filming the Everyday: Between Aesthetics and Politics -- 13 Images and Reality -- Part 6 Relationships and Communities -- 14 Aesthetics in Friendship and Intimacy -- 15 Morality and Aesthetical Lives: Real Stories of Two Hong Kong Women -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Living with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical Practice -- Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: An Introduction -- Part 1 Living Aesthetically -- 1 Dao Aesthetics: Ways of Opening to Sublime Experiences and Transforming Beautifully -- 2 Everyday Aesthetics of Taking a Walk: With Zhuangzi -- 3 Investigation of Things: Reflecting on Chinese-Western Comparative Everyday Aesthetics -- Part 2 Nature and Environment -- 4 The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment: From the Perspective of Comparison between China and the West -- 5 Cryosphere Aesthetics -- Part 3 Eating and Drinking -- 6 Memory’s Kitchen: In Search of a Taste -- 7 Chopsticks and the Haptic Aesthetics of Eating -- 8 Taking Tea, but Differently: The Chinese Tea Tradition and its European Transformations -- Part 4 Creative Life -- 9 Dô (Dao) in the Practice of Art: Everyday Aesthetic Life in Japan Through the Japanese Tea Ceremony -- 10 Skill Stories from the Zhuangzi and Arts and Crafts: Aesthetic Fit, Harmony, and Transformation: Toward a Developmental, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics -- Part 5 Technology and Images -- 11 Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of Gadgets -- 12 Filming the Everyday: Between Aesthetics and Politics -- 13 Images and Reality -- Part 6 Relationships and Communities -- 14 Aesthetics in Friendship and Intimacy -- 15 Morality and Aesthetical Lives: Real Stories of Two Hong Kong Women -- Index

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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.

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In English.

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