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Title Intercultural aesthetics : a worldview perspective / edited by Antoon Van den Braembussche, Heinz Kimmerle, Nicole Note
Published Dordrecht ; London : Springer, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 217 pages)
Series Einstein meets Magritte ; 9
Einstein meets Magritte ; 9.
Contents Intercultural Aesthetics: An Introduction -- An Intercultural Approach to a World Aesthetics -- Living -- in between -- Cultures -- Living (with) Art: The African Aesthetic Worldview as an Inspiration for the Western Philosophy of Art -- The Origins of Landscape Painting: An Intercultural Perspective -- Nishida, Aesthetics, and the Limits of Cultural Synthesis -- Identity and Hybridity -- Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Age of Globalization -- The Rasa Theory: A Challenge for Intercultural Aesthetics -- Presenting the Unpresentable. On Trauma and Visual Art -- Visual Archives and the Holocaust: Christian Boltanski, Ydessa Hendeles and Peter Forgacs -- A Distant Laughter: The Poetics of Dislocation -- Where You End and I Begin -- The Multiple Ethics of Contemporary Art Practice -- The Ethics of the Wound
Summary In this book the editors brought together outstanding articles concerning intercultural aesthetics. The concept 'Intercultural aesthetics' creates a home space for an artistic cross-fertilization between cultures, and for heterogeneity, but it is also firmly linked with the intercultural turn within Western and non-Western philosophy. The book is divided into two parts, yet one can sense a clear unity throughout the whole book. This unity is related to the underlying subject that the different authors, each in their own way and from their own background, try to reveal. They use related, and overlapping terms such as 'the suchness of things', 'dancing and shaping lives', 'presenting a meaning beyond words, presenting the unpresentable, experiencing', in order to bring to our awareness the genuine importance of the non-conceptual, next to the conceptual. Several authors moreover take on a reflective, and at times even a self-reflective stance, pointing to the intrinsic relation between cultural aesthetics and ethics, making this book unique in its kind
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Aesthetics.
Aesthetics -- Social aspects
Intercultural communication.
Sciences humaines.
Sciences sociales.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics -- Social aspects
Intercultural communication
Esthetica.
Form Electronic book
Author Braembussche, A. A. van den, 1946-
Kimmerle, Heinz, 1930-
Note, Nicole
ISBN 9781402057809
1402057806
9781402045073
1402045077