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Incorporating the findings of Rosa Wunner in Japonica Humboldthiana 2 (1998)
"This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the “beautiful woman” (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868–1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese art and aesthetics, the figure of the bijin appeared across a broad range of visual and textual media: photographs, illustrations, prints, and literary works, as well as fictional, critical, and journalistic writing. It eventually constituted a genre of painting called bijinga (paintings of beauties).Aesthetic Life examines the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politic...
This collection of essays constitutes the first history of modern Japanese aesthetics in any language. It introduces readers through lucid and readable translations to works on the philosophy of art written by major Japanese thinkers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Selected from a variety of sources (monographs, journals, catalogues), the essays cover topics related to the study of beauty in art and nature. The translations are organized into four parts. The first, "The Introduction of Aesthetics," traces the formation of notions of "beauty," "culture," and "art" in Japan. It includes discussion of the creation of the museum in Japan and the frenetic efforts of Nishi Amane, ...
Cet ouvrage explore les raisons pour lesquelles la religion chrétienne, qui a « formaté » la presque totalité de la culture occidentale jusqu’à une époque récente, est maintenant répudiée par la majeure partie des Occidentaux. Cette sortie de la religion, dont parlent sociologues et philosophes, et dans laquelle se reconnaissent de nombreux chrétiens, est l’aboutissement d’une longue histoire. Elle va du Néolithique à ces derniers siècles où les humains se sont émancipés de l’explication religieuse de l’Univers.
Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments.
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