Steve Odin teaches Japanese and East-West comparative philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he has taught for more than thirty years.

[Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics] will be intriguing and stimulating not only to those scholars who engage in Whitehead studies but also to those who are concerned with the development of an East-West dialogue on aesthetics and aesthetic education.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction AbbreviationsAbout the CoverI. Primacy of Aesthetics1. Primacy of Aesthetics in Japanese Culture2. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Early Works3. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Process and Reality4. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Later Works5. Whitehead’s Retrieval of Beauty6. The Problem of Aestheticism (i) Whitehead’s Aestheticism(ii) Japanese AestheticismII. Beauty as Aesthetic Quality7. Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Aesthetic Quality 8. Aesthetic Quality in East-West Perspective (i) S. C. Pepper, (ii) F.S.C Northrop, (iii) R. M. Pirsig, (iv) H. N. Wieman, (v) S. K. Langer 9. Whitehead’s Doctrine of Aesthetic Qualities as Eternal Objects10. Beauty as Synaesthesia in Whitehead, Hartshorne & Japanese Aesthetics III. A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yugen & Aware in Japanese Aesthetics A. Penumbral Beauty 11. Penumbral Beauty of Darkness in Whitehead’s Process Aesthetics 12. Yugen as the Beauty of Darkness in Japanese Aesthetics 13. A Whiteheadian Perspective

Steve Odin teaches Japanese and East-West comparative philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he has taught for more than thirty years.

[Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics] will be intriguing and stimulating not only to those scholars who engage in Whitehead studies but also to those who are concerned with the development of an East-West dialogue on aesthetics and aesthetic education.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction AbbreviationsAbout the CoverI. Primacy of Aesthetics1. Primacy of Aesthetics in Japanese Culture2. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Early Works3. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Process and Reality4. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Later Works5. Whitehead’s Retrieval of Beauty6. The Problem of Aestheticism (i) Whitehead’s Aestheticism(ii) Japanese AestheticismII. Beauty as Aesthetic Quality7. Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Aesthetic Quality 8. Aesthetic Quality in East-West Perspective (i) S. C. Pepper, (ii) F.S.C Northrop, (iii) R. M. Pirsig, (iv) H. N. Wieman, (v) S. K. Langer 9. Whitehead’s Doctrine of Aesthetic Qualities as Eternal Objects10. Beauty as Synaesthesia in Whitehead, Hartshorne & Japanese Aesthetics III. A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yugen & Aware in Japanese Aesthetics A. Penumbral Beauty 11. Penumbral Beauty of Darkness in Whitehead’s Process Aesthetics 12. Yugen as the Beauty of Darkness in Japanese Aesthetics 13. A Whiteheadian Perspective

Steve Odin teaches Japanese and East-West comparative philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he has taught for more than thirty years.

[Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics] will be intriguing and stimulating not only to those scholars who engage in Whitehead studies but also to those who are concerned with the development of an East-West dialogue on aesthetics and aesthetic education.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction AbbreviationsAbout the CoverI. Primacy of Aesthetics1. Primacy of Aesthetics in Japanese Culture2. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Early Works3. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Process and Reality4. Whitehead’s Aesthetics: Later Works5. Whitehead’s Retrieval of Beauty6. The Problem of Aestheticism (i) Whitehead’s Aestheticism(ii) Japanese AestheticismII. Beauty as Aesthetic Quality7. Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Aesthetic Quality 8. Aesthetic Quality in East-West Perspective (i) S. C. Pepper, (ii) F.S.C Northrop, (iii) R. M. Pirsig, (iv) H. N. Wieman, (v) S. K. Langer 9. Whitehead’s Doctrine of Aesthetic Qualities as Eternal Objects10. Beauty as Synaesthesia in Whitehead, Hartshorne & Japanese Aesthetics III. A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yugen & Aware in Japanese Aesthetics A. Penumbral Beauty 11. Penumbral Beauty of Darkness in Whitehead’s Process Aesthetics 12. Yugen as the Beauty of Darkness in Japanese Aesthetics 13. A Whiteheadian Perspective