The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy)

✍ Scribed by Arindam Chakrabarti (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art provides an extensive research resource to the burgeoning field of Asian aesthetics. Featuring leading international scholars and teachers whose work defines the field, this unique volume reflects the very best scholarship in creative, analytic, and comparative philosophy.

Beginning with a philosophical reconstruction of the classical rasa aesthetics, chapters range from the nature of art-emotions, tones of thinking, and aesthetic education to issues in film-theory and problems of the past versus present. As well as discussing indigenous versus foreign in aesthetic practices, this volume covers North and South Indian performance practices and theories, alongside recent and new themes including the Gandhian aesthetics of surrender and self-control and the aesthetics of touch in the light of the politics of untouchability.

With such unparalleled and authoritative coverage, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art represents a dynamic map of comparative cross-cultural aesthetics. Bringing together original philosophical research from renowned thinkers, it makes a major contribution to both Eastern and Western contemporary aesthetics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Titlel Page
contents
Figures
chapter one
i. the varieties of suggested meaning
ii. the ordinariness of poetic language
iii. the afterlife of the controversy
chapter two
i. introduction
ii. the quest for a provisional universality
iii. what makes
theory relevant to contemporary aesthetics?
iv. applying
chapter three
i. anukrti and the problem of translation
ii. anukrti in indian art historiography
iii. locating anukarana-vâda in a contemporary context of comparative aesthetics
iv. revisiting the abhinavabharati to explore anukrti or “mimesis”
chapter four
chapter five
i. the amorous and the aesthetic
ii. introducing cosmic sport: the enchanter’s enchanter, cupid’s cupid
iii. splitting the divine “i”: into me and you
iv. difference in nondifference
v. from cosmic peace to surging emotion
vi. eros and the resplendent-sapphire
vii. the red flame of passion turns blue
viii. savage aesthetics
ix. desperate housewives
x. the play of polyamory
xi. the poetic theology of illicit love
xii. the blinding light of the resplendent blue
chapter six
i. subjectivity and ontological constraint
ii. three ways of being fictional
iii. fiction and detachment
iv. emotions across the ontological divide
v. the impersonal subjectivity of aesthetic consciousness
vi. aesthetic emotional subjectivity without first-personal salience
vii. dramatic imagination and contemplative feeling
viii. subjectivity without ownership
ix. center-less subjectivity and de-centered self
chapter seven
i. AesthetiC thinking without CleAn borders
ii. the beAutiful repugnAnt?
iii. the ca ptivatingly cringe-worthy
iv. the
v. AESTHETIC DEPICTION OF DEFECATION, DECAPITATION, AND DEATH
vi. two trAnsformAtions of the loAthsome: ludiCrous And loved
vii. six vArieties of AesthetiC disgust
viii. inConClusion
chapter eight
i.
ii. Bankimchandra
iii. raBindranath
iv. aBanindranath tagore: how to see the nonexistent
v.
vi.
chapter nine
i. toward a theory of the
ii. toward a theory of the
iii. toward a theory of the
chapter ten
chapter eleven
i. deep seeing: notes on ku
ii. ākāṅkṣā: caesura and completion
iii. deep seeing
iv. advaita: the metaphysics of form
v. loneliness
vi. in lieu of conclusion
chapter twelve
i. rEaliZatiON
ii. EROS, WORK, AND DANCE
iii. THE JOUISSANCE OF DANCE
chapter thirteen
i. entering the buddha’s house
ii. the ascetic dweller
iii. the idea of the hut
iv. the paradox of dwelling
v. the paradox of appearance
vi. the paradox of renunciation
chapter fourteen
i. paradox in the aesthetic conception
ii. the metaphysics of skin and touch
iii. resignifying the skin and dalit aesthetic
chapter fifteen
i. introduction
chapter sixteen
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chapter seventeen
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chapter eighteen
Index