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2008 , Vol. 3 >Issue 4: 577 - 594

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-008-0036-4

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The body and its image in classical Chinese aesthetics

  • LIU Chengji
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  • The Research Center of Value and Culture, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Published date: 05 Dec 2008

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Abstract

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.

Key words： physical body; nature; art; image

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LIU Chengji . The body and its image in classical Chinese aesthetics[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2008 , 3(4) : 577 -594 . DOI: 10.1007/s11466-008-0036-4

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