The body and its image in classical Chinese aesthetics

LIU Chengji

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Front. Philos. China ›› 2008, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (4) : 577-594. DOI: 10.1007/s11466-008-0036-4
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The body and its image in classical Chinese aesthetics

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Richard Shusterman’s Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art was published in China in 2002. In the preface of the Chinese edition, the author claimed that his tentative idea of soma esthetics was encouraged by Chinese philosophy and other ancient Asian philosophy. Shusterman’s background in pragmatist philosophy greatly constrains his understanding of the body in classical Chinese aesthetics in that he only pays attention to the technical aspects of physical training while neglecting the philosophical basis of this training. In Chinese philosophy the orientation of the body, the relationship between the body and the universe, the body characteristic of the beauty of nature and the beauty of art, etc., is a theoretical response to Shusterman’s oriental misreading.

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physical body / nature / art / image

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LIU Chengji. The body and its image in classical Chinese aesthetics. Front Phil Chin, 2008, 3(4): 577‒594 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-008-0036-4

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