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Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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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.
Further on, it proceeds to look into the conceptual progression of
beauty in such main schools of thought as Confucianism, Daoism and
Chan Buddhism. Then, it goes on to illustrate through art and
literature the leading principles of equilibriumharmony,
spontaneous naturalness, subtle void and synthetic possibilities.
It also offers a discussion of modern change and transcultural
creation conducted with particular reference to the theory of the
poetic state par excellence (yi jing shuo) and that of art as
sedimentation (ji dian shuo).
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