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Poetry and Power of Judgment
The Aesthetic Unity of Chinese Classical Poetry
Introduction
This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and appreciating classical Chinese poems and the basis for valid aesthetic judgments about poetry.
The pleasure derived from art plays a crucial role in people's evaluation of its worth. This book shows that Chinese classical poetics and Western aesthetics agree on the sources of aesthetic pleasure. Both hold, despite their obvious differences, that aesthetic taste essentially involves cognition.
Key Concepts
The book explores important ideas in traditional Chinese poetry, emphasizing that "Poetry is founded upon the power of judgement (shi)." This central idea guides other key concepts throughout the history of Chinese poetics, revealing the fundamental principles of creating and appreciating poetic art.
New Perspectives
The author presents new views of traditional Chinese poetry and poetics by unifying these long-dispersed basic propositions into a new coherent cognitivist framework that also gives due importance to emotion.
Audience
Scholars and students studying Chinese literature, poetics, philosophy of art, and philosophy of mind will find this book interesting.
