The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy)

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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. Cover Titlel Page contents Figures chapter one i. the varieties of suggested meaning ii. the ordinariness of poetic language iii. the afterlife of the controversy chapter two i. introduction ii. the quest for a provisional universality iii. what makes theory relevant to contemporary aesthetics? iv. applying chapter three i. anukrti and the problem of translation ii. anukrti in indian art historiography iii. locating anukarana-vâda in a contemporary context of comparative aesthetics iv. revisiting the abhinavabharati to explore anukrti or “mimesis” chapter four chapter five i. the amorous and the aesthetic ii. introducing cosmic sport: the enchanter’s enchanter, cupid’s cupid iii. splitting the divine “i”: into me and you iv. difference in nondifference v. from cosmic peace to surging emotion vi. eros and the resplendent-sapphire vii. the red flame of passion turns blue viii. savage aesthetics ix. desperate housewives x. the play of polyamory xi. the poetic theology of illicit love xii. the blinding light of the resplendent blue chapter six i. subjectivity and ontological constraint ii. three ways of being fictional iii. fiction and detachment iv. emotions across the ontological divide v. the impersonal subjectivity of aesthetic consciousness vi. aesthetic emotional subjectivity without first-personal salience vii. dramatic imagination and contemplative feeling viii. subjectivity without ownership ix. center-less subjectivity and de-centered self chapter seven i. AesthetiC thinking without CleAn borders ii. the beAutiful repugnAnt? iii. the ca ptivatingly cringe-worthy iv. the v. AESTHETIC DEPICTION OF DEFECATION, DECAPITATION, AND DEATH vi. two trAnsformAtions of the loAthsome: ludiCrous And loved vii. six vArieties of AesthetiC disgust viii. inConClusion chapter eight i. ii. Bankimchandra iii. raBindranath iv. aBanindranath tagore: how to see the nonexistent v. vi. chapter nine i. toward a theory of the ii. toward a theory of the iii. toward a theory of the chapter ten chapter eleven i. deep seeing: notes on ku ii. ākāṅkṣā: caesura and completion iii. deep seeing iv. advaita: the metaphysics of form v. loneliness vi. in lieu of conclusion chapter twelve i. rEaliZatiON ii. EROS, WORK, AND DANCE iii. THE JOUISSANCE OF DANCE chapter thirteen i. entering the buddha’s house ii. the ascetic dweller iii. the idea of the hut iv. the paradox of dwelling v. the paradox of appearance vi. the paradox of renunciation chapter fourteen i. paradox in the aesthetic conception ii. the metaphysics of skin and touch iii. resignifying the skin and dalit aesthetic chapter fifteen i. introduction chapter sixteen i. ii. iii. chapter seventeen i. ii. iii. iv. v. chapter eighteen Index