Cloth weaving cloth, clay shaping clay toward a religion of beauty (or folkcrafts as a way of dwelling poetically)
Prompted by Heidegger’s search for great art in the modern times, this paper looks into crafts as answering the philosopher’s frustrated call. Using Soetsu Yanagi’s idea of a “religion of beauty,” which turns to the ordinary as beautiful, it suggests that crafts—carefully made by hand while consider...
| Published in: | International Journal of Philosophy Vol. 17, no. 2 (May. 2016), 208-224 |
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| Language: | English |
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2016
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