The present volume endeavors to make a contribution to contemporary
Whitehead studies by clarifying his axiological process
metaphysics, including his theory of values, concept of aesthetic
experience, and doctrine of beauty, along with his philosophy of
art, literature and poetry. Moreover, it establishes an east-west
dialogue focusing on how Alfred North Whitehead's process
aesthetics can be clarified by the traditional Japanese Buddhist
sense of evanescent beauty. As this east-west dialogue unfolds it
is shown that there are many striking points of convergence between
Whitehead's process aesthetics and the traditional Japanese sense
of beauty. However, the work especially focuses on two of
Whitehead's aesthetic categories, including the penumbral beauty of
darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while further
demonstrating parallels with the two Japanese aesthetic categories
of yugen and aware. It is clarified how both Whitehead and the
Japanese tradition have articulated a poetics of evanescence that
celebrates the transience of aesthetic experience and the
ephemerality of beauty. Finally it is argued that both Whitehead
and Japanese tradition develop an aesthetics of beauty as
perishability culminating in a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic
beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace or
nirvana.
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