Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism

Flowers, Johnathan

Lexington Books（2023/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 422 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781793626707
• DDC分類 144.3

Full Description

Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism places the naturalistic pragmatism of John Dewey in conversation with Motoori Norinaga's mono no aware, a Japanese aesthetic theory of experience, to examine gender as a felt experience of an aware, or an affective quality of persons. By treating gender as an affect, Johnathan Charles Flowers argues that the experience of gendering and being gendered is a result of the affective perception of the organization of the body in line with cultural aesthetics embodied in Deweyan habit or Japanese kata broadly understood as culturally mediated transactions with the world. On this view, how the felt sense of identity aligns with the affective organization of society determines the nature of the possible social transactions between individuals. As such, this book intervenes in questions of personhood broadly—and identity specifically—by treating personhood itself as an affective sense. In doing so, this book demonstrates how questions of personhood and identity are themselves affective judgments. By treating gender and other identities as aware, this book advocates an expanded recognition of the how to be in the world through cultivating new ways of perceiving the affective organization of persons.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Mono no Aware in Motoori Norinaga's Thought

Chapter 2: The Poetic Cultivation of Mono no Aware

Chapter 3: The Normative and Social Dimensions of Mono no Aware in Experience

Chapter 4: The Aware of Gender in Literature

Chapter 5: Establishing the Ground of Aesthetic Personhood through John Dewey and Thomas Alexander

Chapter 6: Individuated Identity as an Aesthetic Process

Chapter 7: The Qualitative Unity of Gender and Offices

Chapter 8: Reconceiving the Kokoro: Reading Norinaga with Dewey

Chapter 9: Cross-Culturally Reconceiving Mono no Aware and Gender

Chapter 10: The Kata of Gender and the Dō of Offices

Chapter 11: Aware as a Poetics of Gender