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Book SynopsisAs a new trend in aesthetics appearing concurrently in the West and the East in the last ten years, the aesthetics of everyday life points to a growing diversification among existing methodologies for pursuing aesthetics, alongside the shift from art-based aesthetics.
Trade Review"Ten years or so from its earliest iterations, it is timely to find a new volume dedicated to everyday aesthetics, one that demonstrates both the confidence of a movement moving into maturity, and a certain reflexivity about how far it has since come. [...] The conceptual problems that the movement faces ... have been addressed more explicitly, and this is one of the collection’s strengths. The movement remains challenged by how to circumscribe the notion of the everyday, and how to conceptualize its aesthetic character. The relation of aesthetics to ethics is not new, but is given an original approach here, as connected to a more general notion of human well-being, and an instinct that the aesthetic is a larger part of that well-being than has been previously considered. The responses offered to these challenges ... demonstrate a sophistication of thought over previous works in this area."Jane ForseyUniversity of WinnipegPhilosophy in Review, 35: 6 (2015)
