Some Additional Remarks Concerning Issues Opened by Prof. Wang Jianjiang

Authors

  • Aleš Erjavec

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i13.191

Keywords:

China, aesthetics, the humanities, Zhuyi, quadrilateral, space, Bie-modernism

Abstract

The article is a further exchange of ideas between a Chinese and a Slovenian scholar. The exchange concerns the position of humanities (especially aesthetics) in China. The exchange between Prof. JianjiangWang and Prof. Aleš Erjavec brings out two very different experiences of the role of the humanities in China and in the West. Prof. Erjavec believes that China is to a large extent following the path of the development of aesthetics and the humanities in the West, while Prof. Jianjian Wang argues that China should develop its more specific and more easily recognized Chinese tradition, thereby making China an important and influential academic force in the world. He expects the strength and position of the Chinese tradition in the humanities to equal the strength of China in economy, development and so on. Great efforts will have to be made if such an outcome is expected.

Author Biography

Aleš Erjavec

Institute of Philosophy of the Center for Scientific Research of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
Slovenia

Aleš Erjavec (1951) is a Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy in the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is author or editor of 15 books on aesthetics, philosophy, cultural studies, visual studies, contemporary art history, the avant-gardes, etc. published in Slovenian, Serbian, English and Chinese. His most recent book is Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements(ed., Durham 2015, Belgrade 2016, Shanghai 2017). He teaches in Ljubljana and Hangzhou. He was President of the Slovenian Society for Aesthetics (1983–1998, 2001–2005) and President of the International Association for Aesthetics (1998–2001).

References

Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1968.

Erjavec, Aleš. “Zhuyi: From Absence to Bustle? Some Comments on Wang Jianjiang’s Article ‘The Bustle and the Absence of Zhuyi’.” AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 13 (2017): 111-121. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i13.189 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i13.189

Jianjiang, Wang. “The Bustle and the Absence of Zhuyi. The Example of Chinese Aesthetics.” Filozofski vestnik 37, 1 (2016): 157–78.

Jianjinag, Wang. “‘Quadrilateral’ in Philosophy and Bie-modernism (Comments on Aleš Erjavec’s “Zhuyi: From Absence to Bustle? Some Comments on Wang Jianjiang's Article ‘The Bustle and the Absence of Zhuyi’”).” AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 13 (2017): 123-142. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i13.190 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i13.190

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Published

15.09.2017

How to Cite

Erjavec, A. (2017). Some Additional Remarks Concerning Issues Opened by Prof. Wang Jianjiang. AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, (13), 143–147. https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i13.191

Issue

No. 13 (2017): Issue No. 13, September 2017 - Main Topic: Yugoslav Studies

Section

Beyond the Main Topic: China and the West: Zhuyi and –isms

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