Overview
- Provides in depth reflections on the matter of intercultural aesthetics from both the theoretical and the practical level
- Enriches existing European perspectives with Chinese, Japanese, Indian and African viewpoints, stimulating the reader to develop a critical stance towards the subject
- Embodies deepening reflection on the aesthetics of trauma and violence in an intercultural perspective
- Gives an insight in the current worldwide cross-fertilization and interpenetration of different cultures in the art world, mostly referred to as ‘diaspora and art’
- More particularly highlights new notions of cultural identity, which have and still do affect the development of the art world
Part of the book series: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society (EMMA, volume 9)
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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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Antoon Van den Braembussche (1946) has taught from 1980 until 2007 philosophy of history and philosophy of art at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. He currently teaches, on a part time basis, art criticism at the Free University of Brussels. Van den Braembussche was Visiting Professor at the University of Bielefeld, Calcutta University, Javdapour University, the University of Amsterdam, the Universities of Turku and Helsinki. He is currently preparing a publication, titled The Silenced Past, which embodies the first systematic inquiry available into the nature of historical taboos and historical traumas in both history and art.
Heinz Kimmerle is a retired professor of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. At different universities in Kenya, Ghana and South Africa he has been teaching as a visiting professor. Since 1996 he is director of the ‘Foudation for Intercultural Philosophy and Art’. In 2003 the University of South Africa in Pretoria conferred an Honorary Doctorate on him. His publications are in the fields of hermeneutics and dialectics, philosophies of difference and intercultural philosophy.
Nicole Note is performing research at the interdisciplinary Centre Leo Apostel, at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. Her main subjects are the relation between worldview, self-understanding and understanding the other.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intercultural Aesthetics
Book Subtitle: A Worldview Perspective
Editors: Antoon Braembussche, Heinz Kimmerle, Nicole Note
Series Title: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5780-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4507-3Published: 10 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7138-5Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5780-9Published: 03 December 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 218
Topics: Philosophy, general, Aesthetics, Non-Western Philosophy, Fine Arts, Anthropology