金鹏程（Paul R. Goldin）新书 The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics
“On discourse about art from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages. Music, poetry, calligraphy, and painting got most attention, and pre-modern theorists sought to be conversant in all four. The arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this time period were music, poetry, calligraphy, and painting, and the book considers the reasons why these four were privileged. Whereas modern artists most likely consider themselves musicians or poets or calligraphers or painters or sculptors or architects, the pre-modern authors who produced the literature that established Chinese aesthetics prided themselves on being wenren, ‘cultured people,’ conversant with all forms of art and learning. Other comparisons with Western theories and works of art are presented at due junctures.”
Table of Contents
1. Stirrings of the Heart;
2. Stirrings of the Cosmos;
3. The Spread of Virtue;
4. The Fallacy of Authenticity;
5. The Immortal Spirit;
6. Against Verisimilitude;
7. The Unity of the Arts;
8. Metacriticism, Meta-Writing, and Beyond.
