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Poetry and Power of Judgment The Aesthetic Unity of Chinese Classical Poetry

By Song Ye Copyright 2024
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and appreciating classical Chinese poems and the basis for valid aesthetic judgments about poetry. The pleasure derived from art plays a crucial role in people’s evaluation of its worth. This book shows that Chinese classical poetics and Western aesthetics agree on the sources of aesthetic... Read more

Introduction  1. Beyond aesthetic tastes: Why can beauty make universal claim?  2. Universal cognitive laws upon which aesthetic judgment of Chinese classical poetry is grounded  3. The proposition with the most salient cognitive attributes in the history of Chinese poetics: Poetry is founded upon the power of judgment  4. The relationship among “aspiration,” “emotion,” and “judgment,” and the intermediary role of “intent”  5. An analysis of the cognitive nature of “intent”  6. How qi (vital force) and ge (manner) lead to the issue of “judgment”: The examination on qi and ge  7. “Principle” (li) and “judgment”: An examination of “principle”  8. “Ideorealm” and “judgment”: Cognitive issues in “ideorealm

Biography

Song Ye is currently a lecturer at Hebei University, China. His research interests include the Chinese classical poetics, Chinese and Western aesthetics, and Chinese classical poems. He is also a poet and has published his own classical poetic work, Collection of Poetic Insights (Yuanshi Ji, 2018).