The Book of Tea A Meditation on Aesthetics, Discipline, and Simplicity
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
03.01.2009
Verlag
Sublime BooksSeitenzahl
84
Maße (L/B/H)
20.3/12.7/0.5 cm
Gewicht
101 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-60459-643-4
A philosophical meditation on aesthetics, discipline, and the ordering of life, expressed through the practice of tea. In The Book of Tea, Kakuz¿ Okakura presents the tea ceremony not as a cultural curiosity, but as a concentrated expression of a broader philosophical orientation towards simplicity, restraint, and the cultivation of perception. The practice of tea becomes, in this account, a means of ordering experience-an enactment of harmony between environment, action, and awareness. Its forms are deliberate, but never rigid; its discipline is inward rather than imposed. The work situates tea within a network of related traditions, drawing upon Zen Buddhism and Taoist thought to articulate an approach to life grounded in attentiveness and proportion. Beauty is treated not as ornament, but as a condition arising from balance and limitation. The tea room itself becomes a space of reduction, where unnecessary elements are excluded in order that what remains may be properly apprehended. In this sense, the ceremony is both aesthetic and ethical, concerned with the shaping of conduct as much as the appreciation of form. First published in 1906, the text stands as a reflective work rather than a descriptive one, offering a sustained consideration of how ordinary acts may be elevated through discipline and intention. It remains of interest to readers of philosophy, aesthetics, and the study of lived practice, particularly where these intersect in the attempt to give form to an ordered and attentive life.
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