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Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West - Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics (Paperback)
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Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West - Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics (Paperback)
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Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West takes up the notion of
artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif
for East-West comparative aesthetics. The work begins with an
overview of aesthetic theory in the West from the
eighteenth-century empiricists to contemporary aesthetics and
concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance.
Throughout, the author takes a highly innovative approach by
juxtaposing Western aesthetic theory against Eastern (primarily
Japanese) aesthetic theory. Weaving between cultures and time
periods, the author focuses on a remarkably wide range of theories:
in the West, the Kantian notion of disinterested contemplation,
Heidegger's Gelassenheit, semiotics, and pragmatism; in Japan,
Zeami's notion of riken no ken, the Kyoto School's intepretation of
nothingness, D. T. Suzuki's analysis of the function of no-mind,
and the writings of Kuki Shuzo on Buddhist detachment. "Portrait of
the artist" fiction by such writers as Henry James, James Joyce,
Mori Ogai, and Natsume Soseki demonstrates how the main theme of
detachment is expressed in literary traditions. The role of
sympathy or pragmatism in relation to disinterest is examined,
suggesting conflicts within or challenges to the notion of
detachment. Researchers and students in Eastern and Western areas
of study, including philosophers and religionists, as well as
literary and cultural critics, will deem this work an invaluable
contribution to cross-cultural philosophy and literary studies.
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