Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophical Journey

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Philosophical reflections on journeys and crossings, homes and habitats, have appeared in all major East Asian and Western philosophies. Landscape and travelling first emerged as a key issue in ancient Chinese philosophy, quickly becoming a core concern of Daoism and Confucianism. Yet despite the eminence of such reflections, Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophical Journey is the first academic study to explore these philosophical themes in detail. Individual case studies from esteemed experts consider how philosophical thought about places and journeys have inspired and shaped major intellectual and cultural traditions; how such notions concretely manifested themselves in Chinese art, particularly in the genres of landscape painting and garden architecture. The studies present a philosophical dialogue between Confucianism and Daoism on issues of social space and belonging and include discussion on travel and landscape in Buddhism as well as Japanese and Tibetan contexts. Approaching the topic from an inter-cultural perspectives, particularly East Asian philosophies, and using these to enrich contemporary reflections on space, the environment, and traversing, this unique collection adds an important voice to present philosophical, political, and cultural discourses. FC Half title Also available from Bloomsbury Title Copyright Contents List of Contributors Introduction (Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew K. Whitehead) Part 1 Contemporary Paths 1 Crossing Boundaries: Zhuangzi and Bashō
on the Art of Travel (Mario Wenning) 2 Wandering and/or Being at Home (Franklin Perkins) 3 Locality and Journeying in Migration (Andrea Martinez) 4 On the Way: Foolish Notes of an Old Nomadic Poet-Philosopher (Günter Wohlfart) Part 2 Strolls and Scrolls 5 Travelling with Laozi and Plato (May Sim) 6 Yinyang Landscape: Fengshui Design and Shanshui Painting (Robin R. Wang) 7 Detachment and Reunion: Travel and Human Presence in Landscape (Ouyang Xiao) 8 Landscape as an Aesthetic Person: On the Conceptual World of German Romanticism (Rolf Trauzettel) Part 3 Buddhist Journeys 9 A Walk through Some Zen Landscapes of the Heart (John C. Maraldo) 10 Hōben as Pedagogical Landscape
(Andrew K. Whitehead) 11 Poets and Pilgrims: From Saigyō
to Shikoku (John Harding) 12 Images and Mirages in Travelling through and Writing about Tibet (Snježana Zorić) Part 4 Confucian and Daoist Ways 13 Travelling through Time with Family and Culture: Confucian Meditations (Henry Rosemont Jr.) 14 Travelling Together with Gravitas: The Intergenerational Transmission of Confucian Culture (Roger T. Ames) 15 Going Along – a Daoist Alternative to Role Ethics (Paul D’Ambrosio) 16 Landscape, Travel, and a Daoist View of the ‘Cosmic Question’ (Chris Fraser) 17 The Moving Subject: Transcendence and Reification in the Philosophy of Tang Junyi (Ady Van den Stock) Index