Intercultural Aesthetics: A Worldview Perspective (Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society, 9)

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 Western and non-Western philosophy. The book is divided into two parts, yet one can sense a clear unity throughout the whole book. This unity is related to the underlying subject that the different authors, each in their own way and from their own background, try to reveal. They use related, and overlapping terms such as ‘the suchness of things’, ‘dancing and shaping lives’, ‘presenting a meaning beyond words, presenting the unpresentable, experiencing’, in order to bring to our awareness the genuine importance of the non-conceptual, next to the conceptual. Several authors moreover take on a reflective, and at times even a self-reflective stance, pointing to the intrinsic relation between cultural aesthetics and ethics, making this book unique in its kind. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Intercultural Aesthetics: An Introduction....Pages 1-9 An Intercultural Approach to a World Aesthetics....Pages 11-18 Living – in between – Cultures....Pages 19-42 Living (with) Art: The African Aesthetic Worldview as an Inspiration for the Western Philosophy of Art....Pages 43-53 The Origins of Landscape Painting: An Intercultural Perspective....Pages 55-67 Nishida, Aesthetics, and the Limits of Cultural Synthesis....Pages 69-86 Identity and Hybridity – Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Age of Globalization....Pages 87-103 The Rasa Theory: A Challenge for Intercultural Aesthetics....Pages 105-117 Presenting the Unpresentable. On Trauma and Visual Art....Pages 119-136 Visual Archives and the Holocaust: Christian Boltanski, Ydessa Hendeles and Peter Forgacs....Pages 137-155 A Distant Laughter: The Poetics of Dislocation....Pages 157-176 Where You End and I Begin – The Multiple Ethics of Contemporary Art Practice....Pages 177-189 The Ethics of the Wound....Pages 191-203 Back Matter....Pages 205-217