Skvortsova Elena

Cultural Tradition and Japanese Aesthetic Thought of XX Cent. Philosophical Essayes

Saarbrücken (Germany), 2012, 256 p.

The author analyses in detail the works of Japanese philosophers of the last century. In particular, the problem of dominating in the Far Eastern aesthetic knowledge of inexpressible, non-discursive, embodied cognition, being an antipode of social oriented knowledge based on the text is examined. The issue of synaesthesia in art, characteristic of Japanese aesthetic tradition “gehjdo” is researched. Aesthetic equivalence of all five man’s feelings in Japanese traditional culture is underlined. The algorithm of the trends in contemporary Japanese culture, reflecting the influence on it by informational society is considered. The thesis of irreducibility of moral-practical sphere of human mind to mathematical models and language frames used by algorithmic aesthetics is postulated. Of course, in this work, the Japanese cultural tradition and the current state of the Japanese philosophical and aesthetic thought were elucidated only in general. Exhaustive research of this issue will be done in future. However, it is important to bear in mind that this study, analysing the work of Japanese philosophers-aestheticians of the 20th cent., is the first in Russian Oriental studies. This research for the first time includes in the academic circulation sufficiently large package of new materials which up to now have not been translated into Russian and analysed in the context of culturology, history and philosophy.