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Expressing the Heart's Intent: Explorations in Chinese Aesthetics

Expressing the Heart's Intent: Explorations in Chinese Aesthetics

Chandler, Marthe Atwater

Paperback

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

PhilosophyAsian ArtGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 1438466587
ISBN13: 9781438466583
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2018
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Using Li Zehou's theories of aesthetics, argues for the importance of the arts to philosophy.

In this wide-ranging examination of the concept of zhi (the heart's intent) as the foundation of Chinese aesthetics, Marthe Atwater Chandler places traditional Chinese aesthetics in conversation with contemporary Chinese theory and traditional western philosophy. Poetry, music, painting, and calligraphy played much the same role in the development of thought in China as science did for philosophy in the west, with important implications for the relationship between art, religion, politics, and morality. Inspired by the work of Li Zehou, a leading contemporary Chinese philosopher and scholar of Kant who traced the relationship between philosophy and art throughout Chinese history, Chandler applies Li's theoretical structure to specific traditions in Chinese art. Throughout the book she considers the relationship of aesthetics and religion in the Chinese adoption of Buddhism, the aesthetics of horse painting, and the personal and political in philosophy in the work of Su Dongpo. By examining particular works of art, Expressing the Heart's Intent argues that if philosophy ignores the arts, it is immeasurably impoverished.

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