Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-1999
Abstract
Chinese philosophy views experience as intrinsically aesthetic. This world view could be elucidated through a consideration of John Dewey's aesthetics and features of Chinese art. Dewey's philosophy of art starts with an understanding of experience as 'live processes' of living creatures interacting with their environment. Such processes are autopoietic in being self-sustaining, ever-changing, capable of increasing complexity, capable of generating novelty, direction and progress on its own. Its autopoietic character is a precondition of the aesthetic in the process of experience. An aesthetic experience is rhythmic, focused, consummatory, and reaches beyond the transitory boundaries of concrete existence. The aesthetic is not confined to what is conventionally identified as art. Most important, the ethical-political, the natural and the cosmic all have an aesthetic aspect, as the paper attempts to show by examining classical Confucianism.
Discipline
East Asian Languages and Societies | Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Asian Philosophy
Volume
9
Issue
2
First Page
107
Last Page
122
ISSN
0955-2367
Identifier
10.1080/09552369908575493
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
Citation
TAN, Sor-hoon.(1999). Experience as art. Asian Philosophy, 9(2), 107-122.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2515
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/09552369908575493