Modern Japanese Aesthetics is the first work in English on the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its incep
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE SUBJECT OF AESTHETICS
ONE .The Introduction of Aesthetics Nishi Amane
TWO. A Voice of Resistance Tsubouchi Shoyo
THREE. Hegelian Reversal Okakura Kakuzo
FOUR. Idealism, Christianity, and Poetics O¯ nishi Hajime
FIVE .The Aesthetics of the Nation Takayama Chogyu
AESTHETIC CATEGORIES
SIX. Onishi Yoshinori and the Category of the Aesthetic
SEVEN. The Creation of Aesthetic Categories
POETIC EXPRESSION
EIGHT. The Space of Poetry The Kyoto School and Nishitani Keiji
NINE. The Calonology of Imamichi Tomonobu
POSTMODERNISM AND AESTHETICS
TEN. The Play of Mirrors Sakabe Megumi
ELEVEN .The Complicity of Aesthetics Karatani Ko¯jin
Glossary
CHRONOLOGY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX