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Artistry as Methodology: Aesthetic Experience and Chinese Philosophy 1
Author(s) -
Mattice Sarah
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12014
Subject(s) - aesthetics , guan , style (visual arts) , metaphor , chinese philosophy , philosophy , order (exchange) , everyday aesthetics , sociology , epistemology , art , literature , history , china , linguistics , humanities , archaeology , finance , economics
Although aesthetics has been to some extent marginalized in western philosophy, within the Chinese philosophical tradition aesthetics plays a key role. This article explores Chinese aesthetics as a site of valuable resources for rethinking the ways in which we conceptualize philosophical activity. After introducing a few distinct features of the Chinese aesthetic tradition, the article examines aesthetic distance in terms of guan , he , and ying , Chinese conceptions of artists and participants, and aesthetic suggestiveness or the inexhaustibility of a work of art, in order to suggest that the Chinese philosophical tradition might contribute its sense of connection between style or method of doing philosophy and aesthetics to a contemporary metaphor of philosophy as aesthetic experience.