Research Catalog

Title

This strange idea of the beautiful / François Jullien ; translated by Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski.

Author

Jullien, François, 1951-

Publication

London : Seagull Books, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Fijałkowski, Krzysztof
• Richardson, Michael, 1953-

Description

x, 259 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"François Jullien explores what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, Jullien challenges the assumptions underlying our commonly agreed upon definition of what is beautiful and offers a new way of beholding art. Looking specifically at how Chinese texts have been translated into Western languages, Jullien reveals how the traditional Chinese refusal to isolate or abstract beauty is obscured in translation in order to make the works more understandable to Western readers. Creating an engaging dialogue between Chinese and Western ideas, Jullien reasseses the essence of beauty."

Series Statement

French list

Uniform Title

• Cette étrange idée du beau. English
• French list.

Alternative Title

Cette étrange idée du beau.

Subject

• Philosophy, Chinese
• Aesthetics, Chinese
• Kunst
• Filosofische aspecten
• Estetik
• Kinesisk filosofi
• China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-259).

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Contents

1. Beautiful, the Beautiful -- 2. The Beautiful: Exercises in Philosophy -- 3. In the Rut of an Impossible Definition -- 4. Statement: China Has Not Been Aware of the Monopolization of the Beautiful -- 5. What Do We Lose Owing to the Beautiful -- 6. The Beautiful: Lynchpin of Metaphysics -- 7. Separation-Medication: On What the Beautiful Is Perched -- 8. To” Transmit the Spirit through the Tangible -- 9. Beauty Comes from Form -- 10. Or To Paint the Transformation -- 11. Variety or Variance -- 12. Essence/Valency -- 13. Resemblance/Resonance -- 14. Presence/Pregnancy -- 15. About the Nude or Beauty -- 16. The Beautiful Representation of a Thing -- 17. How Beautiful, or What Can I do but Judge? -- 18. Is It a Matter of Pleasure? -- 19. Democracy of the Beautiful -- 20. The Dread of the Beautiful -- 21. The Beautiful Dead -- 22. The Cult of the Beautiful -- 23. To Be free of Beauty? -- 24. To Restore to Beauty Its Strangeness.

ISBN

• 9780857420107
• 0857420100

OCLC

• 904284262
• SCSB-13711841

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library