Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 THE SUBJECT OF AESTHETICS 1. The Introduction of Aesthetics: Nishi Amane 17 Text: “The Theory of Aesthetics” by Nishi Amane 26 2. A Voice of Resistance: Tsubouchi Shōyō 38 Text: “What Is Beauty?” by Tsubouchi Shōyō 48 3. Hegelian Reversal: Okakura Kakuzō 65 Text: “A Lecture to the Painting Appreciation Society” by Okakura Kakuzō 71 4. Idealism, Christianity, and Poetics: Ōnishi Hajime 79 Text: “There Is No Religion in Waka” by Ōnishi Hajime 83 5. The Aesthetics of the Nation: Takayama Chogyū 93 Text: “Observations on Aesthetic Pleasure” by Takayama Chogyū 98 AESTHETIC CATEGORIES 6. Ōnishi Yoshinori and the Category of the Aesthetic 115 Text: “Aware” by Ōnishi Yoshinori 122 7. The Creation of Aesthetic Categories 141 Text: “The Logic of Passional Surplus” by Kusanagi Masao 148 vii POETIC EXPRESSION 8. The Space of Poetry: The Kyoto School and Nishitani Keiji 171 Text: “Emptiness and Sameness” by Nishitani Keiji 179 9. The Calonology of Imamichi Tomonobu 218 Text: “Expression and Its Logical Foundation” by Imamichi Tomonobu 220 POSTMODERNISM AND AESTHETICS 10. The Play of Mirrors: Sakabe Megumi 231 Text: “Mask and Shadow in Japanese Culture: Implicit Ontology in Japanese Thought” by Sakabe Megumi 242 Text: “Modoki: The Mimetic Tradition in Japan” by Sakabe Megumi 251 11. The Complicity of Aesthetics: Karatani Kōjin 263 Text: “Edo Exegesis and the Present” by Karatani Kōjin 270 Glossary 301 Chronology 305 Bibliography 311 Index 319 viii Contents ...