.d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sko o B n o tg n ixe L .6 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sko o B n o tg n ixe L .6 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sko o B n o tg n ixe L .6 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Contemporary Whitehead Studies SeriesEditors: Roland Faber (Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University) andBrianG.Henning(GonzagaUniversity) ContemporaryWhiteheadStudies,co-sponsoredbytheWhiteheadResearchProject,isan interdisciplinarybookseriesthatpublishesmanuscriptsfromscholarswithcontemporary andinnovativeapproachestoWhiteheadstudiesbygivingspecialfocustoprojectsthat: • explore the connections between Whitehead and contemporary Continental philosophy, especially sources, like Heidegger, or contemporary streams like poststructuralism, • reconnectWhiteheadtopragmatism,analyticalphilosophyandphilosophyoflan- guage, • explorecreativeEast/WestdialoguesfacilitatedbyWhitehead’swork, • explore the interconnections of the mathematician with the philosopher and the contemporary importance of these parts of Whitehead’s work for the dialogue betweensciencesandhumanities, • reconnectWhiteheadtothewiderfieldofphilosophy,thehumanities,thesciences and academic research with Whitehead’s pluralistic impulses in the context of a pluralisticworld, • address Whitehead’s philosophy in the midst of contemporary problems facing humanity,suchasclimatechange,warandpeace,race,andthefuturedevelopment ofcivilization. TitlesintheSeries .d e vre ButleronWhitehead:OntheOccasion,editedbyRolandFaber, ser sth MichaelHalewood,andDeenaLin g ir llA FoundationsofRelationalRealism:ATopologicalApproachtoQuantumMechanics .sko andthePhilosophyofNature,byMichaelEppersonandEliasZafiris o B n o TheDivineManifold,byRolandFaber tg n ixe L .6 CreaturelyCosmologies:WhyMetaphysicsMattersforAnimal 10 andPlanetaryLiberation,byBrianneDonaldson 2 © th giryp TragicBeautyinWhiteheadandJapaneseAesthetics,bySteveOdin o C Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics .d Steve Odin e vre se r sth g ir llA .sko o B n o tg n ixe L .6 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2016byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable .d LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData e vre se Names:Odin,Steve,1953-author. r sth Title:TragicbeautyinWhiteheadandJapaneseaesthetics/SteveOdin. g ir llA Description:Lanham:LexingtonBooks,2016.|Series:Contemporarywhiteheadstudies|Includes .sko Idenbtiifbielirosg:LraCpChNica2l0r1e6fe0r1e1n8c9es2|aInSdBiNnd9e7x8.1498514774(cloth:alk.paper)|ISBN9781498514781 o B n (electronic) o tg Subjects:Whitehead,AlfredNorth,1861-1947.|Aesthetics,Modern--20thcentury.|Aesthetics, n ixe Japanese.|Tragic,The,inart. L .6 Classification:LCCB1674.W354O352016|DDC111/.85092--dc23LCrecordavailableathttp:// 1 02 lccn.loc.gov/2016011892 © th g iryp TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican o C NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sko o B n o tg n ixe L .6 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sko o B n o tg n ixe L .6 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Contents AbouttheCover ix ListofAbbreviations xi Preface xiii Introduction xv PartI:PrimacyofAesthetics 1 1 PrimacyofAestheticsinJapaneseCulture 3 2 Whitehead’sAesthetics:EarlyWorks 11 3 Whitehead’sAesthetics:ProcessandReality 31 4 Whitehead’sAesthetics:LaterWorks 59 5 Whitehead’sRetrievalofBeauty 67 6 TheProblemofAestheticism 75 PartII:BeautyasAestheticQuality 97 7 Whitehead’sMetaphysicsofAestheticQuality 99 8 AestheticQualityinEast-WestPerspective 109 9 Whitehead’sDoctrineofAestheticQualitiesasEternal Objects 141 10 BeautyasSynaesthesiainWhitehead,Hartshorne,and .de JapaneseAesthetics 147 vre se r sth PartIII:AWhiteheadianPerspectiveonYūgenandAwarein g ir llA JapaneseAesthetics 169 .sko 11 The“PenumbralBeauty”ofDarknessandShadowsin o B n Whitehead’sProcessAesthetics 175 o tgn 12 YūgenastheBeautyofDarknessinJapaneseAesthetics 211 ixe L .6 13 AWhiteheadianPerspectiveonYūgeninJapanese 1 02 Aesthetics 219 © thg 14 TimeasDiscontinuousContinuityinWhitehead,Dōgen, iryp andNishida 237 o C vii viii Contents PartIV:AWhiteheadianPerspectiveonYūgenandAwarein JapaneseAesthetics 251 15 TragicBeautyinWhitehead’sProcessAesthetics 253 16 AwareinJapaneseAesthetics 261 17 AWhiteheadianPerspectiveonAwareinJapanese Aesthetics 289 18 TragicBeautyandPeaceinWhiteheadandJapanese Aesthetics 301 Bibliography 313 GlossaryofSino-JapaneseCharacters 323 Index 325 IndexofNames 331 .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sko o B n o tg n ixe L .6 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C