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Book SynopsisThis imaginative new collection explores the aesthetic qualities of human relationships, sports, taste, smell, food, and natural and built environments. With essays from philosophers working in a variety of traditions in the humanities and social sciences, this collection offers an important contribution to and expansion of traditional aesthetics.
Trade ReviewAndrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith have done a genuine service in assembling the essays in The Aesthetics of Everyday Life. -- Theodore Gracyk Philosophy In Review "After sleepwalking for several decades under the exclusive trance of fine art, philosophers are once again recognizing that aesthetics denotes a far wider and more significant field. In the real world of everyday living, aesthetics helps determine the clothes we wear and the food we eat, but also the company, the environments, and the beliefs we keep, and even the officials we elect. The Aesthetics of Everyday Life should be welcomed as a useful and wide-ranging collection that explores this fascinating domain." -- Richard Shusterman
Table of ContentsI. Theorizing the Aesthetics of the Everyday 1. The Nature of Everyday Aesthetics, by Tom Leddy 2. Ideas for a Social Aesthetic, by Arnold Berleant 3. On the Aesthetics of the Everyday: Familiarity, Strangeness, and the Meaning of Place, by Arto Haapala 4. Danto and Baruchello: From Art to the Aesthetics of the Everyday, by Michael A. Principe II. Appreciating the Everyday Environment 5. Building and the Naturally Unplanned, by Pauline von Bonsdorff 6. What is the Correct Curriculum for Landscape?, by Allen Carlson 7. Wim Wenders's Everyday Aesthetics, by Andrew Light III. Finding the Everday Aesthetic 8. Sport Viewed Aesthetically, and Even as Art?, by Wolfgang Welsch 9. The Aesthetics of Weather, by Yuriko Saito 10. Sniffing and Savoring: The Aesthetics of Smells and Tastes, by Emily Brady 11. How Can Food Be Art?, by Glenn Kuehn
