Odin: Artistic Detachment Japan PaArtistic Detachment in Japan and the West takes up the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East West comparative aesthetics. The work begins with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West from the eighteenth century empiricists to contemporary aesthetics and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance. Throughout, the author takes a highly innovative approach by juxtaposing Western