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The Zen Arts : an Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan

Cox, Rupert, 1967-

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

Online Ressource (297 pages)

Englisch

Print version record

Erscheint auch als: Cox, Rupert : Zen Arts : An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan. - Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-136-85551-1 ; 1-136-85551-3

0-7007-1475-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-7007-1475-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-7007-1475-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 862613885 (aus SWB)     

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DS821

306.470952     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: POL038000 ; bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: SOC022000 ; bisacsh: SOC 022000 ; bisacsh: POL 038000 ; bisacsh: SOC 002010

LOC-SH: Zen Buddhism -- Japan ; Arts and society -- Japan ; Aesthetics -- Japan ; Zen Buddhism -- Japan ; Arts and society -- Japan ; Aesthetics ; Electronic books

Electronic books ; Japan ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Aesthetics ; Arts and society ; Zen Buddhism

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment. This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts and