Book contents
- Guru Nanak’s Transcendent Aesthetics
- Reviews
- Guru Nanak’s Transcendent Aesthetics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Note
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Aesthetic Stairway
- Chapter 2 Aesthetic Repertoire and Literary Appetizers
- Chapter 3 Aesthetic Designs in the Language of Love
- Chapter 4 Aesthetic Agents
- Chapter 5 Aesthetic Revealer
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - Aesthetic Agents
The Sensuous Quintet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2024
- Guru Nanak’s Transcendent Aesthetics
- Reviews
- Guru Nanak’s Transcendent Aesthetics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Note
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Aesthetic Stairway
- Chapter 2 Aesthetic Repertoire and Literary Appetizers
- Chapter 3 Aesthetic Designs in the Language of Love
- Chapter 4 Aesthetic Agents
- Chapter 5 Aesthetic Revealer
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4 focuses on the sensuous quintet integral to Guru Nanak’s metaphysical thought and praxis. Materially made up of transcendent fibers, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and seeing have the cognitive capacity to take audiences off to limitless territories, or inversely, get them tangled up in messy affairs. They belong to everybody irrespective of race, gender, sexuality, class, politics, or religion, and though they are different modalities, they are a part of the same unitary living body and work together intersensorially and synaesthetically. For Guru Nanak there is no stereotypical hierarchy between “lower” and “higher” senses; the five are equally saturated with ontological, ethical, psychological, and soteriological import and flourish in concert. However, in order to understand their critical role and function, the somatic agents are analyzed separately. Hopefully the positive, progressive Nanakian outlook can cure some of the chronic somatophobic abnormalities prevailing across cultures.
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- Guru Nanak's Transcendent Aesthetics , pp. 161 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024