Intercultural aesthetics : a worldview perspective / edited by Antoon Van den Braembussche, Heinz Kimmerle, Nicole Note.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braembussche, A. A. van den, 1946-

Kimmerle, Heinz, 1930-

Note, Nicole.

Series:

Einstein meets Magritte : an interdisciplinary reflection on science, nature, art, human ; 9.

Einstein meets Magritte : an interdisciplinary reflection on science, nature, art, human ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Aesthetics--Social aspects.

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

vi, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2008.

Summary:

In this book the editors brought together outstanding articles concerning intercultural aesthetics. The concept 'intercultural aesthetics' creates a home space for an artistic cross-fertilization between cultures, and for heterogeneity, but it is also firmly linked with the intercultural turn within Western and non-Western philosophy. The book is divided into two parts, yet one can sense a clear unity throughout the whole book. This unity is related to the underlying subject that the different authors, each in their own way and from their own background, try to reveal. They use related, and overlapping terms such as 'the suchness of things,' 'dancing and shaping lives,' 'presenting a meaning beyond words, presenting the unpresentable, experiencing', in order to bring to our awareness the genuine importance of the non-conceptual, next to the conceptual. Several authors moreover take on a reflective, and at times even a self-reflective stance, pointing to the intrinsic relation between intercultural aesthetics and ethics, making this book unique in its kind.

Contents:

1 Intercultural Aesthetics: An Introduction / Antoon Van den Braembussche, Heinz Kimmerle, Nicole Note 1

2 An Intercultural Approach to a World Aesthetics / Grazia Marchiano 11

3 Living - in between - Cultures: Downscaling Intercultural Aesthetics to Daily Life / Henk Oosterling 19

4 Living (with) Art: The African Aesthetic Worldview as an Inspiration for the Western Philosophy of Art / Heinz Kimmerle 43

5 The Origins of Landscape Painting: An Intercultural Perspective / Heinz Paetzold 55

6 Nishida, Aesthetics, and the Limits of Cultural Synthesis / Robert Wilkinson 69

7 Identity and Hybridity - Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Age of Globalization / Karl-Heinz Pohl 87

8 The Rasa Theory: A Challenge for Intercultural Aesthetics / Rosa Fernandez Gomez 105

9 Presenting the Unpresentable. On Trauma and Visual Art / Antoon Van den Braembussche 119

10 Visual Archives and the Holocaust: Christian Boltanski, Ydessa Hendeles and Peter Forgacs / Ernst van Alphen 137

11 A Distant Laughter: The Poetics of Dislocation / Jean Fisher 157

12 Where You End and I Begin - The Multiple Ethics of Contemporary Art Practice / Pam Johnston 177

13 The Ethics of the Wound / Everlyn Nicodemus 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781402045073

1402045077

9781402057809

1402057806

OCLC:

310959171