Table of Contents
Introduction: Transformative Aesthetics—Reflections on the Metamorphic Power of Art
Erika Fischer-Lichte
1 Aristotle’s theory of Katharsis in its Historical and Social Contexts
Edith Hall
2 The Taste of Art and Transcendence: Transformation(s) in Rasa and Bhakti Aesthetics
Guillermo Rodriguez
3 Metamorphosis in the Picture
Bernhard Waldenfels
4 Somaesthetics and Self-Cultivation in Chinese Art
Richard Shusterman
5 Schiller’s Transformative Aesthetics
Benjamin Wihstutz
6 Clairvoyance and Transformation: Wagner’s Neuroaesthetics
Matthew Wilson Smith
7 The Invisible Vanguard: Reflections on Political Movements and Contemporary AvantGarde Formations
James Harding
8 Applied Theatre: Theatre for Change
Matthias Warstat
9 Transformative Resistance and Aesthetics
Bill Ashcroft
10 The Art of not Relating with one Another—Notes on Some Issues and Potentials of Relational Art
Sandra Umathum