In this paper, I explore the motif of “blandness” (píngdàn 平淡) by relating it to the discussion of hardness and softness, farness and nearness, as discussed in the book The Spirit of Chinese Art by the modern Chinese philosopher Xú Fùguān 徐復觀. In this way, I hope to look into the significance of blandness in Chinese literati painting. In literati painting, an aesthetic limit-experience is practiced, which has to do with changing states of breath-energy and breathing. It refrains from a mode of creativity that one-sidedly strives for intensity, shock, and provocation. Here “blandness” is understood as a philosophical and aesthetic concept that refers to the cultivation of the ability to leave possibilities unused out of freedom. This sounds ...
The article examines the content and meaning of the Chinese aesthetic concept of shensi and its rela...
Insofar as the references to the concept atopon within the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer are rare, this...
The phenomenon of the body has been neglected or placed lower in the hierarchy of importance for the...
In this paper, I explore the motif of “blandness” (píngdàn 平淡) by relating it to the discussion of h...
The proposition that the unity of Beauty and Goodness (meishan heyi 美善合一) is the distinctive feature...
This article argues that traditional Chinese society was characterized by a “part–whole structure” i...
Rad najprije utvrđuje da iz pojma prvobitnog znanja (liangzhi 良知) Wanga Yangminga王陽明 (1472. – 1529.)...
This paper critically examines whether, and how, mystical insights can be conveyed in language. Firs...
Svrha je priloga ocrtati vezu među književnošću, ludilom i jezikom u Foucaultovoj filozofiji. U prvo...
Da bi se razumjela Hegelova kritika stoicizma u svezi problema slobode, argumentiram da je važno cij...
Grčki filozofi tvrdili su da je specifičan zadatak umjetnosti mimesis. Ova vrsta stava o odnosu izme...
The concept of shen 身, meaning a person in all his or her physiological, psychological, and sociolog...
U prilogu se pojašnjava metaforički govor o terapeutskom karakteru filozofije. Već je u antičkom dob...
La situation de la Chine en matière de respect des engagements contractuels dans les rapports...
Although it generally holds that Giambattista Vico was almost never mentioned in Germany during the ...
The article examines the content and meaning of the Chinese aesthetic concept of shensi and its rela...
Insofar as the references to the concept atopon within the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer are rare, this...
The phenomenon of the body has been neglected or placed lower in the hierarchy of importance for the...
In this paper, I explore the motif of “blandness” (píngdàn 平淡) by relating it to the discussion of h...
The proposition that the unity of Beauty and Goodness (meishan heyi 美善合一) is the distinctive feature...
This article argues that traditional Chinese society was characterized by a “part–whole structure” i...
Rad najprije utvrđuje da iz pojma prvobitnog znanja (liangzhi 良知) Wanga Yangminga王陽明 (1472. – 1529.)...
This paper critically examines whether, and how, mystical insights can be conveyed in language. Firs...
Svrha je priloga ocrtati vezu među književnošću, ludilom i jezikom u Foucaultovoj filozofiji. U prvo...
Da bi se razumjela Hegelova kritika stoicizma u svezi problema slobode, argumentiram da je važno cij...
Grčki filozofi tvrdili su da je specifičan zadatak umjetnosti mimesis. Ova vrsta stava o odnosu izme...
The concept of shen 身, meaning a person in all his or her physiological, psychological, and sociolog...
U prilogu se pojašnjava metaforički govor o terapeutskom karakteru filozofije. Već je u antičkom dob...
La situation de la Chine en matière de respect des engagements contractuels dans les rapports...
Although it generally holds that Giambattista Vico was almost never mentioned in Germany during the ...
The article examines the content and meaning of the Chinese aesthetic concept of shensi and its rela...
Insofar as the references to the concept atopon within the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer are rare, this...
The phenomenon of the body has been neglected or placed lower in the hierarchy of importance for the...