Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics.

Intro -- Contents -- About the Cover -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Primacy of Aesthetics -- Chapter One: Primacy of Aesthetics in Japanese Culture -- Chapter Two: Whitehead's Aesthetics: Early Works -- Chapter Three: Whitehead's Aesthetics: Process and Reality -- Chapter Four: Whitehead's Aesthetics: Later Works -- Chapter Five: Whitehead's Retrieval of Beauty -- Chapter Six: The Problem of Aestheticism -- Part II: Beauty as Aesthetic Quality -- Chapter Seven: Whitehead's Metaphysics of Aesthetic Quality -- Chapter Eight: Aesthetic Quality in East-West Perspective -- Chapter Nine: Whitehead's Doctrine of Aesthetic Qualities as Eternal Objects -- Chapter Ten: Beauty as Synaesthesia in Whitehead, Hartshorne, and Japanese Aesthetics -- Part III: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yūgen and Aware in Japanese Aesthetics -- Chapter Eleven: The "Penumbral Beauty" of Darkness and Shadows in Whitehead's Process Aesthetics -- Chapter Twelve: Yūgen as the Beauty of Darkness in Japanese Aesthetics -- Chapter Thirteen: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yūgen in Japanese Aesthetics -- Chapter Fourteen: Time as Discontinuous Continuity in Whitehead, Dōgen, and Nishida -- Part IV: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Yūgen and Aware in Japanese Aesthetics -- Chapter Fifteen: Tragic Beauty in Whitehead's Process Aesthetics -- Chapter Sixteen: Aware in Japanese Aesthetics -- Chapter Seventeen: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Aware in Japanese Aesthetics -- Chapter Eighteen: Tragic Beauty and Peace in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Sino-Japanese Characters -- Index -- Index of Names.

This book examines Whitehead's process aesthetics focusing the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace.

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