Reflections On Japanese Taste: The Structure of IKI
Publishing Details
Reflections On Japanese Taste: The Structure of IKI
By (Author) Kuki Shuzo
Power Institute of Fine Arts
Power Institute of Fine Arts
1st August 1997
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Philosophy: aesthetics
111.85
Physical Properties
168
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
301g
Description
Translated by John Clark The first English translation of a remarkable book on modern aesthetics that clarifies a distinctively plebian Japanese sensibility based on a unique category of taste, IKI. The work anticipates directions in postwar thought, structuaralism in particular, through its opposition of high and low culture. The only version of Kuki's text - including those in Japanese - to provide full interpretive notes. Essential reading for studies in Japanese culture.
Author Bio
Kuki Shuzo was a cosmopolitan member of an early twentieth-century modernising elite in Japan. During his long residence in Europe in the 1920s, Kuki studied under Husserl and was acquainted with Heidegger, Bergson, and the young Sartre. He was one of the first Japanese thinkers to found a Japanese aesthetics, bridging European and Japanese traditions in philosophy. John Clark teaches modern Asian art at the University of Sydney, Australia.
