Intercultural Aesthetics A Worldview Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Braembussche, Antoon Van den (Editor), Kimmerle, Heinz (Editor), Note, Nicole (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Einstein Meets Margritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society ; 9
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Fine arts.; Aesthetics.; Philosophy, Asian.; Anthropology.; Philosophy, general.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Fine Arts.

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...

Table of 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.