Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism
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Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism

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eBook - PDF

Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism

About this book

Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism places the naturalistic pragmatism of John Dewey in conversation with Motoori Norinaga's mono no aware, a Japanese aesthetic theory of experience, to examine gender as a felt experience of an aware, or an affective quality of persons. By treating gender as an affect, Johnathan Charles Flowers argues that the experience of gendering and being gendered is a result of the affective perception of the organization of the body in line with cultural aesthetics embodied in Deweyan habit or Japanese kata broadly understood as culturally mediated transactions with the world. On this view, how the felt sense of identity aligns with the affective organization of society determines the nature of the possible social transactions between individuals. As such, this book intervenes in questions of personhood broadly—and identity specifically—by treating personhood itself as an affective sense. In doing so, this book demonstrates how questions of personhood and identity are themselves affective judgments. By treating gender and other identities as aware, this book advocates an expanded recognition of the how to be in the world through cultivating new ways of perceiving the affective organization of persons.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781978779808
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Asian Literary Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Philosophical Background
  8. Outline of the Work
  9. A Note on Mono no Aware in English
  10. Notes
  11. Chapter 1: Mono no Aware in Motoori Norinaga’s Thought
  12. Chapter 2: The Poetic Cultivation of Mono no Aware
  13. Chapter 3: The Normative and Social Dimensions of Mono no Aware in Experience
  14. Chapter 4: The Aware of Gender in Literature
  15. Chapter 5: Establishing the Ground of Aesthetic Personhood through John Dewey and Thomas Alexander
  16. Chapter 6: Individuated Identity as an Aesthetic Process
  17. Chapter 7: The Qualitative Unity of Gender and Offices
  18. Chapter 8: Reconceiving the Kokoro: Reading Norinaga with Dewey
  19. Chapter 9: Cross-Culturally Reconceiving Mono no Aware and Gender
  20. Chapter 10: The Kata of Gender and the Dō of Offices
  21. Chapter 11: Aware as a Poetics of Gender
  22. References
  23. Index
  24. About the Author