Comparative Everyday Aesthetics : East-West Studies in Contemporary Living (Paperback)

Foreword: Living with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical Practice ?Yuriko Saito, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: An Introduction ?Jeffrey Petts and Eva K W Man, Part 1: Living Aesthetically, Dao Aesthetics: Ways of Opening to Sublime Experiences and Transforming Beautifully ?Robin R Wang, Everyday Aesthetics of Taking a Walk: With Zhuangzi ?Thomas Leddy, Divergence and Rejoining: Reflecting on Chinese-Western Comparative Everyday Aesthetics ?Ouyang Xiao, Part 2: Nature and Environment, The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment: From the Perspective of Comparison between China and the West ?Gao Jianping, Cryosphere Aesthetics ?Emily Brady, Section 3: Eating and Drinking, Memory's Kitchen: In Search of a Taste ?Carolyn Korsmeyer, Chopsticks and the Haptic Aesthetics of Eating ?Richard Shusterman, Taking Tea, but Differently: The Chinese Tea Tradition and its European Transformations ?Yanping Gao, Part 4: Creative Life, Dô (Dao) in the Practice of Art: Everyday Aesthetic Life in Japan Through the Japanese Tea Ceremony ?Tanehisa Otabe, Skill Stories from the Zhuangzi and Arts and Crafts: Aesthetic Fit, Harmony, and Transformation: Toward a Developmental, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics ?Jeffrey Petts, Part 5: Technology and Images, Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of Gadgets ?Janet McCracken, Filming the Everyday: Between Aesthetics and Politics ?Peng Feng, Images and Reality ?John Carvalho, Part 6: Relationships and Communities, Aesthetics in Friendship and Intimacy ?Katherine Higgins, Morality and Aesthetical Lives: Real Stories of Two Hong Kong Women ?Eva Kit Wah Man, AUTHORS' BIO.