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India and Intercultural Aesthetics

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In combination with the intercultural philosophical orientation developed in India, the concept of an intercultural aesthetics prepares the way for well-founded comparison and a new dialogue among different aesthetic traditions of the world. And it unmasks the myth of the total purity of a culture.

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Mall, R.A. (2009). India and Intercultural Aesthetics. In: Sepp, H., Embree, L. (eds) Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2471-8_32

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