Focillon, Bergson and Buddhist aesthetics : a point in Focillon's reception of Japanese art

• Autores: Robert Wilkinson
• Localización: Contrastes. Suplemento, ISSN 1136-9922, Nº. 17, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Estética e interculturalidad : relaciones entre el arte y la vida / María Rosa Fernández Gómez (ed. lit.), Luis Puelles Romero (ed. lit.), Eva Fernández del Campo Barbadillo (ed. lit.)), págs. 275-288
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This essay focuses on a point in Henri Focillon's interpretation of the aesthetics of Japanese art. Focillon fastens very precisely on a deep difference which exists in the understanding of the idea of aesthetic contemplation in the Western and Eastern traditions. Western traditional analyses of contemplation presuppose and embody assumptions about the ontologicalultimacy of individuals that are absent from Eastern traditions in which the ultimate is conceived of as nothingness. In particular, the idea that the absolute is fully manifested in each phenomenal individual is absent from Western aesthetics. Focillon grasped this, and his views are contrasted with those of Bergson, and confirmed by those of the eminent Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro, who was his contemporary.