1st Edition

The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics

By Paul R. Goldin Copyright 2024
198 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - with the following animating questions: What is art? Why do we produce it? How do we judge it? The arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this time period were music, poetry, calligraphy, and painting, and this book considers the reasons... Read more

1. Stirrings of the Heart 2. Stirrings of the Cosmos 3. The Spread of Virtue 4. The Fallacy of Authenticity 5. The Immortal Spirit 6. Against Verisimilitude 7. The Unity of the Arts 8. Metacriticism, Meta-Writing, and Beyond

Biography

Paul R. Goldin is Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Rituals of the Way: The Philosophy of Xunzi (1999); The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (2002); After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy (2005); Confucianism (2011); and The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them (2020). In addition, he edited the revised edition of R.H. van Gulik's classic study, Sexual Life in Ancient China (2003), and has edited or co-edited six other books on Chinese culture and political philosophy.