The Pursuit of Comparative Aesthetics: An Interface Between East and WestDr. Mazhar Hussain, Robert Wilkinson Ranging across cultures and time periods as diverse as ancient Greece, India, China, the modern West and Japan, the essays in this volume represent some of the most important research in comparative aesthetics. |
Contents
The Aesthetic Pleasure of Tragedy in Western and Indian Thought | 29 |
Schopenhauers Aesthetics Seen from the Buddhist Point of View | 39 |
The Concept of Purification in the Greek and Indian Theories | 55 |
Interactions between Western and Chinese Aesthetics | 113 |
Chinese Aesthetics and Kant | 127 |
The Importance of Chinese Philosophy for Western Aesthetics | 137 |
A Brief Comparative Study | 145 |
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