The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

Arindam Chakrabarti

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781350058026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781472524300
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Aesthetics in Philosophy

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art provides an extensive research resource to the burgeoning field of Asian aesthetics. Featuring leading international scholars and teachers whose work defines the field, this unique volume reflects the very best scholarship in creative, analytic, and comparative philosophy.

Beginning with a philosophical reconstruction of the classical rasa aesthetics, chapters range from the nature of art-emotions, tones of thinking, and aesthetic education to issues in film-theory and problems of the past versus present. As well as discussing indigenous versus foreign in aesthetic practices, this volume covers North and South Indian performance practices and theories, alongside recent and new themes including the Gandhian aesthetics of surrender and self-control and the aesthetics of touch in the light of the politics of untouchability.

With such unparalleled and authoritative coverage, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art represents a dynamic map of comparative cross-cultural aesthetics. Bringing together original philosophical research from renowned thinkers, it makes a major contribution to both Eastern and Western contemporary aesthetics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy
• Title
• Imprint
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Contemporary Indian Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
• Chapter One “Resonance” and Its Reverberations: Two Cultures in Indian Epistemology of Aesthetic Meaning
• Chapter Two Rasa Aesthetics Goes Global: Relevance and Legitimacy priyadarshi patnaik
• Chapter Three Who Is Afraid of Mimesis? Contesting the Common Sense of Indian Aesthetics through the Theory of “Mimesis” or Anu
• Chapter Four Thoughts on Svara and Rasa: Music as Thinking/Thinking as Music
• Chapter Five The Aesthetics of the Resplendent Sapphire: Erotic Devotion in Rupa Gosvamin’s Ujjvalanilama.i
• Chapter Six The Impersonal Subjectivity of Aesthetic Emotion
• Chapter Seven Refining the Repulsive: Toward an Indian Aesthetics of the Ugly and the Disgusting
• Chapter Eight The Perfume from the Past: Modern Reflections on Ancient Art
• Chapter Nine Aesthetics of Theft
• Chapter Ten A Complex Web: Approaches to Time in Rajput and Mughal Painting
• Chapter Eleven Deep Seeing: On the Poetics of Ku.iya..am
• Chapter Twelve Realizing the Body in Movement: Gestures of Freedom in the Dance Aesthetics of Rabindranath Tagore and Kumar Sha
• Chapter Thirteen The Aesthetical Paradox of the Hermit’s Hut
• Chapter Fourteen Aesthetic of Touch and the Skin: An Essay in Contemporary Indian Political Phenomenology*
• Chapter Fifteen Demands and Dilemmas of Durga Puja “Art”:
• Chapter Sixteen The Sky of Cinema
• Chapter Seventeen Toward a Gandhian Aesthetics: The Poetics of Surrender and the Art of Brahmacharya
• Chapter Eighteen Aesthetic Judgment of Disgrace*
• GLOSSARY OF SANSKRIT TERMS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• Index
• Plates