Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living

ISBN-13: 9789463723367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Jeffrey Petts

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Foreword: Living with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical Practice —Yuriko Saito
Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: An Introduction —Jeffrey Petts and Eva K W Man
Part 1: Living Aesthetically
Dao Aesthetics: Ways of Opening to Sublime Experiences and Transforming Beautifully —Robin R Wang
Everyday Aesthetics of Taking a Walk: With Zhuangzi —Thomas Leddy
Divergence and Rejoining: Reflecting on Chinese-Western Comparative Everyday Aesthetics —Ouyang Xiao
Part 2: Nature and Environment
The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment: From the Perspective of Comparison between China and the West —Gao Jianping
Cryosphere Aesthetics —Emily Brady
Section 3: Eating and Drinking
Memory’s Kitchen: In Search of a Taste —Carolyn Korsmeyer
Chopsticks and the Haptic Aesthetics of Eating —Richard Shusterman
Taking Tea, but Differently: The Chinese Tea Tradition and its European Transformations —Yanping Gao
Part 4: Creative Life
Dô (Dao) in the Practice of Art: Everyday Aesthetic Life in Japan Through the Japanese Tea Ceremony —Tanehisa Otabe
Skill Stories from the Zhuangzi and Arts and Crafts: Aesthetic Fit, Harmony, and Transformation: Toward a Developmental, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics —Jeffrey Petts
Part 5: Technology and Images
Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of Gadgets —Janet McCracken
Filming the Everyday: Between Aesthetics and Politics —Peng Feng
Images and Reality —John Carvalho
Part 6: Relationships and Communities
Aesthetics in Friendship and Intimacy —Katherine Higgins
Morality and Aesthetical Lives: Real Stories of Two Hong Kong Women —Eva Kit Wah Man
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