Considering, Questioning and Re-Imagining Harmony : Multicultural, Multihistorical and Multidisciplinary Reflections.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benitez, Rick, editor.

Lai, Karyn, editor.

Li, Chenyang, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harmony (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

An examination of the personal, social and political implications of harmony across different cultures, histories and disciplines.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Also available from Bloomsbury

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part One Considering Harmony

1 The Bow and the Lyre: Structural Opposition and Harmonic Tension in Heraclitus

I. THE BOW AND THE LYRE

II. HERACLITUS AND ERYXIMACHUS

III. STRUCTURAL OPPOSITION AND HARMONIC TENSION

IV. CODA

2 The Conceptualization of Harmony in Indian Aesthetic Thought: The Śanta Rasa

I. INTRODUCTION

II. THE CONCEPT OF SAVOR: RASA AND THE EMOTIONS

III. RASA BEYOND AESTHETICS

IV. HARMONY AS RASA

V. THE EXPERIENCE OF RASA: FROM THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE COLLECTIVE

VI. CONCLUSION

3 A Principled and Context-Sensitive Harmony Within and Without: Zhu Xi's Conception of Harmony

II. AN UNANCHORED HARMONY: CHENYANG LI'S (2014) ACCOUNT

III. LI 理 IN ZHU XI'S PHILOSOPHY

IV. THE CONTEXT-SENSITIVITY OF PRINCIPLE AS NORM

V. HARMONY IN ZHU'S PHILOSOPHY

Part Two Questioning Harmony

4 The Zhuangzi: Disruptive and Harmonious Engagements with the World

I. THE STANDARDS THAT DEFINE US

II. COMFORT ZONES AND BLINKERS

III. BEING DIFFERENT

IV. ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT

V. CONCLUSION

5 Kaibara Ekken on Making Room for Disagreement: An Edo Confucian Defence of Moderate Adversariality

I. EKKEN ON VALUING - AND DISRUPTING -INTERPERSONAL HARMONY

II. EKKEN AGAINST STRONG ADVERSARIALISM

III. EKKEN'S PATH TO MODERATE ADVERSARIALISM

IV. ASSESSING EKKEN'S MODERATE ADVERSARIALISM

6 Harmony and Hegemony: Enactivism and Oppressive Equilibria

I. ENACTIVISM

II. OPPRESSIVE EQUILIBRIA

III. OPENNESS

IV. CONCLUSION

7 A Buddhist Critique of Harmony

II. HARMONY AS CONCEPT AND IDEAL IN CLASSICAL WESTERN THOUGHT

III. HARMONY IN PALI AND MAHĀYĀNA BUDDHISM

III. MAHĀYĀNA EMPTINESS AS CRITIQUE.

IV. EQUANIMITY AS RESISTANCE

V. CRITICAL BUDDHISM: AGAINST TOPICALISM

VI. RADICAL BUDDHISM: AGAINST HARMONY

VII. CONCLUSION

8 Real Harmony of the Self: Enactivism and the Kyoto School

I. HARMONY AS AUTONOMY: AN ENACTIVE ANALYSIS

II. HARMONY AS A HIGHER-ORDER AUTONOMY: UEDA SHIZUTERU'S ACCOUNT

III. REAL HARMONY

Part Three Reimagining Harmony

9 Strong Harmony

I. HARMONY VIA DIVERSITY

II. DYNAMIC HARMONY

III. DEEP HARMONY

IV. GENERATIVE HARMONY

V. ACTIVE HARMONY

VI. STRONG HARMONY FOR THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

10 The Harmony of Opposites in Design and Philosophy

I. CONCEPTIONS OF HARMONY: POP CULTURE TO CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY

II. MUSIC AS A MODEL FOR HARMONIZATION

III. DESIGN AS HARMONIZATION

IV. DESIGN THINKING IN OPPOSITES

V. THE UNIFIED MODEL OF AESTHETICS

VI. ON THE NATURE OF OPPOSITES

VII. SYNTHESIZED TABLE OF OPPOSITES

VIII. LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH QUESTIONS

IX. CONCLUSION

11 Music and the Existential Significance of Harmony

I. MUSIC AND HARMONY

II. MATHEMATIZATION, MUSIC AND HARMONY

III. HARMONY, LISTENING AND MAGIC

IV. HARMONY, CHAOS AND THE DEMONIC

V. TOWARDS AN EXISTENTIAL COMMITMENT TO HARMONY

12 Making Harmony Safe for Democracy

I. MORAL CONFLICT AND POLITICAL ORDER

II. AGONISTIC VIRTUE AND POLITICAL PLURALISM

III. DEMOCRATIC VIRTUES

IV. GAMES AS SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

V. LUDIC POLITICS WITHOUT FOUNDATION

VI. COOPERATIVE COMPETITION AS ACTIVE HARMONY

13 Constitutional Dialogue as Active Confucian Harmony

I. CONFUCIAN HARMONY AS A COMMUNITARIAN POLITICAL IDEAL

II. ACTIVE HARMONY?

III. FROM POSITIVE FREEDOM TO POLITICAL RIGHTS

IV. CONSTITUTIONAL DIALOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Index.

ISBN:

1-350-46665-4

1-350-45322-6

OCLC:

1520505498