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Book SynopsisThis collection of papers focuses on theories and practices in relation to the arts around the globe, in particular, those that have been ignored or marginalized by analytic or Anglo-American aesthetics and philosophy of art. The intention is to explain specific ways that the concepts of the aesthetic and of the arts might be enriched and enhanced.
Table of ContentsI Introduction,
Susan L. Feagin . II The Sounding of theWorld: Aesthetic Reflections on Traditional Gong Music of Vietnam, Philip Alperson, Nguye n ChıBe´n, and to Ngoc Thanh.
III Balinese Aesthetics, Stephen Davies.
IV Aesthetic and Spiritual Correlations in Javanese Gamelan Music, Susan PrattWalton.
V An Alchemy of Emotion: Rasa and Aesthetic Breakthroughs Kathleen Marie Higgins.
VI Asian Ars Erotica and the Question of Sexual Aesthetics, Richard Shusterman.
VII Islamic Aesthetics: An AlternativeWay to Knowledge, Jale Nejdet Erzen.
VIII Shikinen Sengu and the Ontology of Architecture in Japan, Dominic Mciver Lopes.
IX The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics, Yuriko Saito.
X The Ethics of Confucian Artistry, Eric C. Mullis.
XI Subversive Strategies in Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Mary BittnerWiseman.
XII Embodied Meanings, Isotypes, and Aesthetical Ideas, Arthur C. Danto.
XIII Art and Globalization: Then and Now, Noel Carroll
