Contents
Foreword
Prologue
1. Introduction
2. The Meaning of Meaning
3. Saksatartha: Rasabrahman
4. Saksatartha: Rupabrahman
5. Paroksartha
6. Epistemology of Aesthetics
7. Aesthetic Implications of Divine Consortship
8. Aesthetics and Idealism
Review
Dehejia investigates into the total dynamics of the art process in the book on the authority of primary and secondary sources. He manifests rare introspection and insight into the nature of art from the viewpoint of an aesthete. The work is outstanding and an admirable contribution to the philosophy of art. - S.P. Dubey, Jabalpur, Prabuddha Bharata, Vol. 104, No. 2, Feb. 1999
...there is, in the monograph, a wealth of material, introspection and insight. All that is stated and argued in the monograph may not be accepted in toto. However, there is no doubt that the book is engaging, stimulating and thought-provoking. S.S. Janaki, Vedanta Kesari, Vol. 85, September, 1998
This is an immensely fascinating and absorbing book, which all students of art would do well to ponder over. As Natavar Joshi has stated, "The Poet, Poetic Activity and Sahrdaya form the aspects of one universe, the world of artistic creation (Kavya-samsara)". This too is the 'Advaita' of Dr. Dehejia's theme. S.V. Sohoni, Annals BORI, lxxix, 1998
…the book encompasses a staggering variety of primary and Secondary sources and sets to investigate the aesthetic experience principally from the point of view of the aesthete… there is a wealth of material introspection and insight, a rare combination of the diagnostic skills of a physician and the artistic insights of an aesthete to survey a vast and continuously flowing stream of Indian aesthetics. - Kapila Vatsyayan