Aesthetics and ethics of relationality: philosophies of Arnold Berleant and Watsuji Tetsuro compared

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dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorSaito,Yuriko
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-24T10:00:07Z
dc.date.available2022-03-24T10:00:07Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractArnold Berleant’s oeuvre spanning half a century is remarkable in its rescience and global reach. One of the most important contributions he makes is to illuminate the relationality that characterizes our aesthetic experience. His notion of aesthetic engagement, extending also to define our mode of being in the world, overcomes the dichotomy between subject and object, a long-held and well-entrenched legacy of Western philosophy. This relational account of human existence is also developed by a twentieth century Japanese philosopher, Watsuji Tetsurō, in his ethics based upon the notion of inbetween-ness. Despite the shared concern to emphasize the interdependent and intertwined relationship with the world as the nature of human existence and aesthetic experience, Watsuji’s interest focuses on self-cultivation, without sufficient attention paid to its social and political implications. Berleant, in comparison, develops the notion of negative aesthetics to highlight those aspects of our lives and environments in which our relational existence and aesthetics are damaged and advocates the importance of utilizing aesthetic sensibility as a critical instrument for social improvement.en
dc.format.extentpages 170-184
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dc.identifier.issn2489-6748 (electronic)
dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/113622
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-202203212311
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAalto Universityen
dc.publisherAalto-yliopistofi
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPOPULAR INQUIRY: The Journal of the Aesthetics of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Cultureen
dc.relation.ispartofseries6(2022):1
dc.subject.keywordBerleanten
dc.subject.keywordAesthetic Engagementen
dc.subject.keywordRelational Aestheticsen
dc.subject.keywordWatsuji Tetsuroen
dc.subject.keywordInbetween-nessen
dc.subject.keywordNegative Aestheticsen
dc.subject.otherPhilosophyen
dc.titleAesthetics and ethics of relationality: philosophies of Arnold Berleant and Watsuji Tetsuro compareden
dc.typeJ Muu elektroninen julkaisufi
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