ODNOS PREMA NESAVRŠENOSTI U JAPANSKOJ ESTETICI: ANALIZA KONCEPTA WABI-SABI
ATTITUDE TOWARDS IMPERFECTION IN JAPANESE AESTHETICS: ANALYSIS OF THE WABI-SABI CONCEPT

Summary/Abstract: The text analyzes the understanding of the concept of wabi-sabi in Japanese aesthetics. It is a complex concept that connects two, originally separate but connected principles - wabi, which refers to sympathy caused by pity; especially liking but also an emotional connection with worn out and dilapidated; feeling of loneliness and helplessness; and sabi, in the sense of special beauty that accompanies loneliness; a state of solitude or peace. The author accepts the assumption that impermanence can be seen as a central feature of the Infinite, from which the entire universe emerges, and hence wabi-sabi can be understood as an aesthetic category that most closely describes the sensory experience of its essence. To feel the impermanence means to sensibly approach the very spirit of cosmic change. In this sense, the process of feeling pleasure in the imperfect, faded or degraded, can be understood as a manifestation of the spirit that reveals the Tao.

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