Poetry and Power of Judgment

The Aesthetic Unity of Chinese Classical Poetry

Song Ye

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Routledge
25 July 2024

Poetry; Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies; Philosophy: aesthetics

This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and appreciating classical Chinese poems and the basis for valid aesthetic judgments about poetry.

The pleasure derived from art plays a crucial role in people’s evaluation of its worth. This book shows that Chinese classical poetics and Western aesthetics agree on the sources of aesthetic pleasure. Both hold, despite their obvious differences, that aesthetic taste essentially involves cognition. The book explores important ideas in traditional Chinese poetry, emphasizing that “Poetry is founded upon the power of judgement (shi).” This central idea guides other key concepts throughout the history of Chinese poetics, revealing the fundamental principles of creating and appreciating poetic art. The author presents new views of traditional Chinese poetry and poetics by unifying these long-dispersed basic propositions into a new coherent cognitivist framework that also gives due importance to emotion.

Scholars and students studying Chinese literature, poetics, philosophy of art, and philosophy of mind will find this book interesting.

By: Song Ye
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032783758
ISBN 10: 1032783753
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 25 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Song Ye is currently a lecturer at Hebei University, China. His research interests include the Chinese classical poetics, Chinese and Western aesthetics, and Chinese classical poems. He is also a poet and has published his own classical poetic work, Collection of Poetic Insights (Yuanshi Ji, 2018).