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v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction Artistic Detachment as an Intercultural Theme 1 Part One Artistic Detachment East and West 1 Artistic Detachment in Western Aesthetics 27 2 Artistic Detachment in Japanese Aesthetics 99 3 An East-West Phenomenology of the Aesthetic Attitude 170 Part Two Psychic Distance in Literature East and West 4 Psychic Distance in Modern Western Literature 199 5 Psychic Distance in Modern Japanese Literature 214 Glossary 281 References 283 Index of Names 291 ...

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