Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy

AvKeping Wang

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:456 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:331
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811617164

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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).

Innehållsförteckning

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.