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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS Sartwell, C. (2004). Six Names of Beauty . New York: Routledge, 167 pp., ISBN 0-415- 96558-6 (hardcover). Reviewed by Mufid James Hannush, Review Editor, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology , author of Becoming Good Parents: An Existential Journey There is an incipient phenomenology in this text on beauty, a neglected topic in the discipline of psychology. Sartwell reflects on the meaning of beauty by taking his cue from the linguistic meanings of beauty in six languages: “beauty” ( English ), “yapha” ( Hebrew ), “sundara” ( Sansakrit ), “kalon” ( Greek ), “wabi-sabi” ( Japanese ), and “hohzo” ( Navaho ). Phenomenological psychologists have neglected to search for structural con- stancies in naturally occurring cultural variations in meaning of a particular phe- nomenon. Not being aware of this possibility, Sartwell does not systematically and rigorously distill the essential structure behind the variations in meanings of beauty that these languages, and the culture they represent, provide. Still, his reflections on each of the meaning approximations of the English understanding of beauty yield a rich harvest that is truly inspiring. In the tradition of the English language, beauty connotes erotic (in the broadest sense of the word) longing, desiring, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0047-2662
eISSN
1569-1624
DOI
10.1163/156916206778876272
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Abstract

BOOK REVIEWS Sartwell, C. (2004). Six Names of Beauty . New York: Routledge, 167 pp., ISBN 0-415- 96558-6 (hardcover). Reviewed by Mufid James Hannush, Review Editor, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology , author of Becoming Good Parents: An Existential Journey There is an incipient phenomenology in this text on beauty, a neglected topic in the discipline of psychology. Sartwell reflects on the meaning of beauty by taking his cue from the linguistic meanings of beauty in six languages: “beauty” ( English ), “yapha” ( Hebrew ), “sundara” ( Sansakrit ), “kalon” ( Greek ), “wabi-sabi” ( Japanese ), and “hohzo” ( Navaho ). Phenomenological psychologists have neglected to search for structural con- stancies in naturally occurring cultural variations in meaning of a particular phe- nomenon. Not being aware of this possibility, Sartwell does not systematically and rigorously distill the essential structure behind the variations in meanings of beauty that these languages, and the culture they represent, provide. Still, his reflections on each of the meaning approximations of the English understanding of beauty yield a rich harvest that is truly inspiring. In the tradition of the English language, beauty connotes erotic (in the broadest sense of the word) longing, desiring,

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Journal of Phenomenological PsychologyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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