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Considering, Questioning and Re-Imagining Harmony
Multicultural, Multihistorical and Multidisciplinary Reflections
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Considering, Questioning and Re-Imagining Harmony
Multicultural, Multihistorical and Multidisciplinary Reflections
About this book
Are harmony and disruption mutually exclusive? This collection critically examines the concept of harmony and its association with perfection.
Harmony is pursued by individuals, families, societies and nations as a fundamental value. Yet it often comes at the cost of freedom, creativity and individuality. This book explores ways in which it may be misleading to regard harmony as opposed to difference or to think that harmony and disruption are independent.
Featuring examples of historically and culturally diverse perspectives of harmony, an international line-up of contributors reflect on ideas from ancient Greek, Chinese, Indian and Japanese thought. They draw on modern and contemporary thinkers and from music and design perspectives. The range of historical and cultural reflections make it possible to re-imagine the concept and practice of harmony, either by incorporating a role for disruption, or by recognising a dynamic in which disruption balances the overreach of harmony.
By including historically and culturally diverse perspectives of harmony to widen the horizons of consideration, this collection present a more inclusive understanding of this major philosophical and political concept.
Harmony is pursued by individuals, families, societies and nations as a fundamental value. Yet it often comes at the cost of freedom, creativity and individuality. This book explores ways in which it may be misleading to regard harmony as opposed to difference or to think that harmony and disruption are independent.
Featuring examples of historically and culturally diverse perspectives of harmony, an international line-up of contributors reflect on ideas from ancient Greek, Chinese, Indian and Japanese thought. They draw on modern and contemporary thinkers and from music and design perspectives. The range of historical and cultural reflections make it possible to re-imagine the concept and practice of harmony, either by incorporating a role for disruption, or by recognising a dynamic in which disruption balances the overreach of harmony.
By including historically and culturally diverse perspectives of harmony to widen the horizons of consideration, this collection present a more inclusive understanding of this major philosophical and political concept.
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Yes, you can access Considering, Questioning and Re-Imagining Harmony by Karyn Lai,Rick Benitez,Chenyang Li in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Eastern Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Considering Harmony
- 1 The Bow and the Lyre: Structural Opposition and Harmonic Tension in Heraclitus
- 2 The Conceptualization of Harmony in Indian Aesthetic Thought: The Åšanta Rasa
- 3 A Principled and Context-Sensitive Harmony Within and Without: Zhu Xi’s Conception of Harmony
- Part II Questioning Harmony
- 4 The Zhuangzi: Disruptive and Harmonious Engagements with the World
- 5 Kaibara Ekken on Making Room for Disagreement: An Edo Confucian Defence of Moderate Adversariality
- 6 Harmony and Hegemony: Enactivism and Oppressive Equilibria
- 7 A Buddhist Critique of Harmony
- 8 Real Harmony of the Self: Enactivism and the Kyoto School
- Part III Reimagining Harmony
- 9 Strong Harmony
- 10 The Harmony of Opposites in Design and Philosophy
- 11 Music and the Existential Significance of Harmony
- 12 Making Harmony Safe for Democracy
- 13 Constitutional Dialogue as Active Confucian Harmony
- Index
- Copyright