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1	Aware as a Theory of Japanese Aesthetics Flowers, Johnathan Charles 01 December 2011 (has links) Aware, as generally conceived in Japanese aesthetics, refers to the felt content within a particular work of art that drives the aesthetic value of that work. In this thesis presents a theory of art that places aware as central to the aesthetic experience in the Japanese as derived from Shinto and Buddhist ontology, as well as the aesthetic theories of Motoori Norinaga. This theory is then contrasted with the aesthetic theory of Susanne K. Langer as presented in Philosophy in a New Key, Feeling and Form, and Problems of Art, to provide a full explication of what it means to have an aesthetic experience or create art in the Japanese context. Aware Japanese Aesthetics Mono no Aware Motoori Norinaga Susanne K. Langer Wabi Sabi
2	Mono no Aware as a Poetics of Gender Flowers, Johnathan Charles 01 August 2018 (has links) Traditional theories of gender performativity, grounded in the tradition of Judith Butler, fail to capture the experience of encountering a gendered subject. By reducing gender to a series of discursive acts and ignoring the aesthetic dimension of gender, these theories neglect the possibility for alternative gender performances divorced from the materiality of the body, except through acknowledging the ficticious nature of gender as a consequence of citational acts. In contrast, this dissertation presents a theory of gender as aware, or the “aboutness” that emerges through the repeated citational acts that make present gender in our lived experience. Gender, therefore, does not possess any ontological essence except insofar as it is articulated by citational practices, without which it cannot exist. To this end, this dissertation argues for an expansion of our discourse on gender through appealing to Japanese aesthetic and poetic concepts of aware and mono no aware to demonstrate the aesthetic nature of gender. In so doing this dissertation will present gender as fundamentally aesthetic through appeal to no, kabuki, and the Takarazuka Revue, all sites which divorced gender form biological sex for the purpose of an aesthetic praxis. American Pragmatism Gender Studies Japanese Aesthetics Japanese Philosophy Mono no Aware Motoori Norinaga
3	Tingets patos : Religionsestetik och shinto som ett estetiskt objekt / The Pathos of Things : Religious aestehtics and shinto as a aesthetic object van der Linden, Martin January 2020 (has links) Föreliggande uppsats är en religionsestetisk studie med fokus på den estetiska dimensionen inom shinto och dess historiska bakgrund. Studien söker en förklaring till nutidens estetiska shintodefinition genom att spåra den tillbaka till Motoori Norinagas (1730–1801) begrepp ”tingets patos” (mono no aware) och hans estetiska tolkning av det gudomliga. / The present essay is a religious aesthetic study focusing on the aesthetic dimension within Shinto and its historical background. The study seeks to find an explanation for the aesthetic Shinto definition of today by tracing it back to Motoori Norinaga's (1730–1801) concept “the pathos of the thing” (mono no aware) and his aesthetic interpretation of the divine. Shinto religious studies religion in Japan Religious aesthetics religion aesthetics mono no aware pathos of things Motoori Norinaga Kokugaku Shinto religionsvetenskap religion i Japan religionsestetik religion estetik mono no aware tingets patos Motoori Norinaga Kokugaku Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
4	Recovering Sensory Pleasure Through Spatial Experience Kim, YoonJin 11 October 2013 (has links) No description available. Architecture Sensory Pleasure Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger Bodily Engagement Tadao Ando, Steven Holl, Peter Zumthor Library of rare book
5	Smrt a pohřební rituál v textu románu Murasaki Šikibu Gendži monogatari / Death and the burial rites in the Murasaki Shikibu's novel benji monogatari Heldenburg, Olga January 2014 (has links) The subject of this dissertation is funeral rites in the Murasaki Shikibu's novel, The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari). The analysis of the text seeks to explore the author's depiction of the end of life, the afterlife, communication with spirits or souls of dead and to summarize the notes and descriptions of the proceedings of funeral rituals including 'before burial' and memorial ceremonies. The purpose of this dissertation is to create an overview of funeral rituals and ideas of death described in the text of Genji Monogatari. The Tale of Genji is considered a document which reflects contemporary thinking and can therefore be relied on for a study of funeral and memorial rituals. The main method used to develop the topic is a detailed analysis of theoretical, practical and aesthetic aspects of death described in the Genji Monogatari novel. The ideas of the Heian Court about death and the afterlife were mainly affecting the cult of ancestors, Shinto, Taoism, Buddhism and Shamanism, which also participated in the creation of the funeral cult. Ideas of the afterlife were also very diverse. The world of the living and the world of the dead, in the concept of old Japanese, were not strictly divided and spirits had access to all spheres of life. Communication with spirits of the living and the souls...

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