Aesthetics East and West: Philosophy, Music and Art

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference in Meran in October 2015 on intercultural aesthetics with the addition of some external contributions. Two general papers on the topic concerned (Ram Adhar Mall, Giusi Strumiello) are followed by contributions on music (H.-C. Günther on Mahler and on Busoni, Yoon Young Serena Kim on Yun Isang), Indian and Chinese art (Ram Adhar Mall, Harro von Senger, Gabriele Kiesewetter), urban planning (Thilo Hilpert) and film (Udo Steinbach). The contributions on art and urban planning are amply illustrated. The appendix contains colour reproductions of an exhibition of watercolours by the Chinese artist Hong Yi with an introduction to the artist's work and detailed explanations of the painting by Gabriele Kiesewetter. Hans-Christian Günther is professor for classics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He has widely published on Greek and Roman philosophy and literature, Byzantine and modern Greek studies. Recently he has been more and more interested in intercultural studies, ethics and international politics.

Preface by the editor
List of Contributors
Introduction by H.-C. Günther
I Problems of Interculturality:
Intercultural Aesthetics: Its Theory and Practice by Ram Adhar Mall
The Dislocation of Being. Merleau-Ponty, the Orient and Philosophy by Giusi Strumiello
II Music:
Mahler and the Orient by Hans-Christian Günther
Die Einzigartigkeit und Universalität von Ferruccio Busoni by Hans-Christian Günther
Der koreanische Komponist Yun Isang by Youn-Young Serena Kim
III Painting and Architecture:
Zur analogischen interkulturellen Hermeneutik der säkularen und sakralen Bildbetrachtung
unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der indischen Ikonographie by Ram Adhar Mall
Chinese Criticism of Contemporary Art by Harro von Senger
Ökologische Strukturplanung = Planung "knapper Güter" by Thilo Hilpert
Avant-gard in China - Impressions of Contemporary Art in Beijing. A Report by Gabriele Kiesewetter
IV Film:
Laudatio auf Haifa al-Mansour ("Wajda") und Ja'far Panahi ("Taxi Teheran") anlässlich der Verleihung
des 6. Immanuel-Kant-Weltbürger-Preises am 1. Oktober 2016 by Udo Steinbach
Appendix:
Water Colours of the Chinese painter Hong Yi with an introduction by Gabriele Kiesewetter:
Architektur und Landschaft vom Dach der Welt. Aquarelle von Hong Yi