The Nietzschean dimension of Chinese traditional Aesthetics

In ancient China, art has never been a substitute for the category of 'truth' in the sense of Western aestheticism, but a mimic for goodness and beauty. The image in traditional Chinese aesthetics never transcended the idea to the level of Western abstraction, and that is because the artis...

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Published inJournal for cultural research Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 353 - 366
Main Author Castelli, Alberto
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 01.10.2024
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Aesthetics
Beauty
Chinese culture
Chinese history
Confucius
Daoism
Dionysus
Ming Dynasty
Nietzsche
Truth
China
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Summary:In ancient China, art has never been a substitute for the category of 'truth' in the sense of Western aestheticism, but a mimic for goodness and beauty. The image in traditional Chinese aesthetics never transcended the idea to the level of Western abstraction, and that is because the artistic expression bore a social synthesis, rather than metaphysical, between human beings, reality, and the world. However, the Ming Dynasty introduces a Dionysian discourse that challenges the Apollonian tradition.
ISSN:1479-7585
1740-1666
DOI:10.1080/14797585.2024.2359542