Overview
- Explores the Chinese conception of beauty from a historical perspective
- Considers the conceptual progression of beauty in Confucianism, Daoism and Chan Buddhism
- Discusses modern change and trans-cultural creation in relation to the theory of the poetic state par excellence
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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).
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy
Authors: Keping Wang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1714-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1713-3Published: 27 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1716-4Published: 28 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1714-0Published: 26 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, Fine Arts, Asian Culture