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9780231135023

The Aesthetics Of Everyday Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780231135023

  • ISBN10:

    0231135025

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-03-30
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Summary

This 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Jonathan M. Smith
Introduction ix
I. Theorizing the Aesthetics of the Everyday
Tom Leddy
1. The Nature of Everyday Aesthetics
3(20)
Arnold Berleant
2. Ideas for a Social Aesthetic
23(16)
Arto Haapala
3. On the Aesthetics of the Everyday: Familiarity, Strangeness, and the Meaning of Place
39(17)
Michael A. Principe
4. Danto and Baruchello: From Art to the Aesthetics of the Everyday
56(17)
II. Appreciating the Everyday Environment
Pauline von Bonsdorff
5. Building and the Naturally Unplanned
73(19)
Allen Carlson
6. What Is the Correct Curriculum for Landscape?
92(17)
Andrew Light
7. Wim Wenders's Everyday Aesthetics
109(26)
III. Finding the Everyday Aesthetic
Wolfgang Welsch
8. Sport Viewed Aesthetically, and Even as Art?
135(21)
Yuriko Saito
9. The Aesthetics of Weather
156
Emily Brady
10. Sniffing and Savoring: The Aesthetics of Smells and Tastes
177(17)
Glenn Kuehn
11. How Can Food Be Art?
194(19)
About the Authors 213(4)
Index 217

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